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Word Meanings - CARNAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Of or pertaining to the body or is appetites; animal; fleshly; sensual; given to sensual indulgence; lustful; human or worldly as opposed to spiritual. For ye are yet carnal. 1 Car. iii. 3. Not sunk in carnal pleasure. Milton rnal desires after
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1. Of or pertaining to the body or is appetites; animal; fleshly; sensual; given to sensual indulgence; lustful; human or worldly as opposed to spiritual. For ye are yet carnal. 1 Car. iii. 3. Not sunk in carnal pleasure. Milton rnal desires after miracles. Trench. 2. Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody. This carnal cur Preys on the issue of his mother's body. Shak. Carnal knowledge, sexual intercourse; -- used especially of an unlawful act on the part of the man.
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- CARNALIST
A sensualist. Burton. - EARTHLY-MINDED
Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n. - TEMPORALNESS
Worldliness. Cotgrave. - WORLDLY
1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining - ANIMALIZATION
1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. - CARNAL-MINDEDNESS
Grossness of mind. - ANIMALCULISM
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules. - ANIMALITY
Animal existence or nature. Locke. - MUNDANE
Of or pertaining to the world; worldly; earthly; terrestrial; as, the mundane sphere. -- Mun"dane*ly, adv. The defilement of mundane passions. I. Taylor. (more info) toilet adornments, or dress; cf. mundus, a., clean, neat, Skr. mansds - ANIMALLY
Physically. G. Eliot. - ANIMALNESS
Animality. - WORLDLY-MINDED
Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n. - SENSUALISTIC
1. Sensual. 2. Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism. - SECULAR
A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules. Burke. - TEMPORAL
Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural. Dryden. He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor or temporals. Lowell. - SENSUAL
1. Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit. Pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies. Bacon. Far as creation's ample range extends, - SENSUALISM
The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism. (more info) 1. The condition or character of one - TEMPORALTY
1. The laity; secular people. Abp. Abbot. 2. A secular possession; a temporality. - ANIMALCULIST
1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism. - ANIMAL
1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process - UNEARTHLY
Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n. - ULTRAMUNDANE
Being beyond the world, or beyond the limits of our system. Boyle. - UNSECULARIZE
To cause to become not secular; to detach from secular things; to alienate from the world.