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▪ I. † carnal, n.1 Obs.
[Presumably for F. corneille crow: but there may be some connexion or association with carnal adj.]
? A crow.
17..‘Carnal & Crane’ i. in Child Ballads ii. iv. (1885) 8/1 In argument I chanced to hear A Carnal and a Crane.
▪ II. † carnal, n.2 Obs.
A perversion of cardinal.
a1528Skelton Image Hypocr. ii. 429 Be they not carnalles, And lordes infernalles? 1543Becon Pol. Warre Pref., One..an Englishe man borne daunceth now like a Traytoure in a Carnalles wede at Rome. 1598R. Barckley Felic. Man (1631) 51 This Cardinall..or rather Carnall and his Brother were both extremely in love with one woman.
▪ III. carnal, a.|ˈkɑːnəl|
Forms: 5 Sc. carnaill, 5–6 carnell, 6 karnale, 5–7 carnall, 5– carnal.
[ad. L. carnāl-is fleshly (in Tertullian and other Christian writers), and frequent in med.L. as an attribute of relationship, as frater or soror carnalis, brother or sister by blood, in which use it appears in Eng. in 15th c. The theological sense appears equally early, but app. not in Wyclif. The Fr. repr. is charnel: see charnel.]
†1. Of or pertaining to the flesh or body; bodily, corporeal. Obs.
c1470Henry Wallace xi. 1348 Bot Inglissmen him seruit of carnaill fud. 1555in Strype Eccl. Mem. III. App. xliv. 125 Look not you for it with carnal eyes. 1579Fulke Refut. Rastel 745 The Lutheranes admitte the carnall presence. 1658Sir T. Browne Hydriot. i. 22 Carnal Interrment or burying. 1847tr. St. Aug. on Psalm xlv. III. 240 The Church which coming from the Gentiles did not consent to carnal circumcision.
†2. Related ‘in blood’, ‘according to the flesh’.
c1450Merlin vii. 117 Noble knyghtes..many of hem carnell frendes. 1490Caxton How to Die 8 His wyf, his chyldren, & his frendes carnall. 1509Barclay Ship of Fooles (1570) 181 Christ our Sauiour..His carnall mother benignly did honour. 1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 66 Two carnall brothers.
3. Pertaining to the body as the seat of passions or appetites; fleshly, sensual.
a1400Cov. Myst. (1841) 84 Myghty soferauns of carnal temptacion. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 148 b, Blynded with sensualite & carnall pleasure. 1670Walton Hooker 33 The visible carnal sins of gluttony and drunkenness, and the like. 1829Southey All for Love iv, To carnal wishes would it [Heaven] turn The mortified intent?
b. Sexual.
c1450Merlin i. 17 That myght haue childe with-owte carnall knowynge of man. 1533T. Wilson Rhet. 25 b, Without wedlocke and carnal copulation. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 1013 That false fruit..Carnal desire inflaming. 1686Col. Rec. Penn. I. 176 He was accused of having Carnall Knowledge of his Brother in Law's woman Servant.
4. Not spiritual, in a negative sense; material, temporal, secular. arch.
1483[see charnel]. c1510Barclay Mirr. Good Mann. (1570) D ij a, Suche one in carnell troubles can no displeasour finde. 1611Bible Rom. xv. 27 Their duetie is also to minister vnto them in carnall things. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxviii. §5 III. 80 Judge whether Martin was supported by the aid of miraculous powers, or of carnal weapons. 1839Stonehouse Axholme 207 [Wesley] began to doubt the utility, and even the lawfulness of carnal studies.
†b. as n. in pl. ‘Carnal things’, temporal or worldly goods. [Rendering τὰ σαρκικά, or Vulg. carnalia, in Rom. xv. 27. 1 Cor. ix. 11.] Obs.
1607S. Collins Serm. (1608) 89 They haue aduanced..the spirtualls of other men, with the loss..of their own carnalls. 1625Burges Pers. Tithes 10 Euery man..that is made partaker of the Minister's Spirituals, must render Carnals. Ibid. 14 Spirituals doe well deserue carnals.
5. Not spiritual, in a privative sense; unregenerate, unsanctified, worldly.
c1510More Picus Ded., All faithfull people are rather spirituall then carnall. 1526Tindale Rom. vii. 14 The lawe is spirituall, but I am carnall [Wyclif fleischli]. 1611Bible Rom. viii. 7 The carnall minde is enmitie against God. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 212 Had not doubt And carnal fear that day dimm'd Adams eye. 1712Addison Spect. No. 494 ⁋1 To abstain from all Appearances of Mirth and Pleasantry, which were looked upon as the Marks of a Carnal Mind. 1865Mozley Mirac. iii. 65 To a carnal imagination an invisible world is a contradiction in terms—another world besides the whole world.
†6. Carnivorous; fig. bloody, murderous. Obs.
1594Shakes. Rich III, iv. iv. 56 This carnall curre Preyes on the issue of his mothers body.
7. Comb., as carnal-minded adj., carnal-mindedness; carnal securitan [f. carnal security; sense 5], etc.
1664H. More Antid. Idol. x. 123 Abusing the credulous and *carnal-minded.
1607Hieron Wks. I. 105 This must needes condemne our *carnall mindednesse. 1849Hare Par. Serm. (1849) II. 30 Spiritual pride..is apt to settle down into carnalmindedness.
1627Bernard Isle of Man 18 One Mr. Outside, in the inside a *carnall Securitan, a fellow that will come to his Church.
1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ix. 112 A most *carnall-spirituall exposition.
1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xii, This *carnal-witted scholar, as he had in his pride termed Butler.
▪ IV. † ˈcarnal, v. Obs. rare.
[f. carnal a.]
a. trans. To make carnal, fill with sensuality.
b. intr. To have carnal intercourse with.
1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. ii. §7 This was the Temper of that Lecher that carnal'd with a Statua. a1653G. Daniel Idyll iii. 90 The Lust of Tyrants..carnalls the world at Will. |