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char·nel I. \ˈchärnəl, -ȧn-\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin carnale, from Late Latin, neuter of carnalis fleshly — more at carnal 1. obsolete : cemetery 2. a. or charnel house : a building, chamber, or other area in which bodies or bones are deposited b. : a mortuary chapel II. adjective 1. : constituting a charnel 2. : gruesomely indicative or suggestive of death : sepulchral, ghastly < a chest filled full of dead men's bones. A charnel smell came from them — Hope Muntz > < devices to which the charnel superstition of the monks has given rise — E.A.Poe > III. noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French chernel, from Latin cardinalis of a hinge — more at cardinal obsolete : a hinge especially of a helmet |