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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of carnify.

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Examples

  • “All flesh is grass,” is not only metaphorically, but literally, true; for all those creatures we behold are but the herbs of the field, digested into flesh in them, or more remotely carnified in ourselves.

    Religio Medici 2007

  • All flesh is grass, is not onely metaphorically, but literally, true; for all those creatures we behold are but the herbs of the field, digested into flesh in them, or more remotely carnified [83] in our selves.

    Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923

  • "All flesh is grass," is not only metaphorically, but literally, true; for all those creatures we behold are but the herbs of the field, digested into flesh in them, or more remotely carnified in ourselves.

    Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643

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