Carnal

Word CARNAL
Character 6
Hyphenation car nal
Pronunciations /ˈkɑɹnəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Carnal"

What do we mean by carnal?

Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites. adjective

Worldly or earthly; temporal. adjective

Of or relating to the body or flesh; bodily. adjective

Pertaining to the flesh; hence, flesh-eating; ravenous; bloody.

Of the same blood or descent; natural; kindred; german.

Pertaining to the flesh or the body, its passions and its appetites; fleshly; sensual; lustful; gross; impure.

Not spiritual; merely human; not partaking of anything divine or holy; unregenerate; unsanctified.

Of or pertaining to the body or its appetites; animal; fleshly; sensual; given to sensual indulgence; lustful; human or worldly as opposed to spiritual. adjective

Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody. adjective

Sexual intercourse; -- used especially of an unlawful act on the part of the man. adjective

Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites adjective

Worldly or earthly; temporal adjective

Of or relating to the body or flesh adjective

Marked by the appetites and passions of the body adjective

Of or relating to the body or flesh adjective

Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites.

Worldly or earthly; temporal.

Of or relating to the body or flesh.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Carnal

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The word "carnal" in example sentences

If by _carnal_ the Gnostics meant 'sensual,' then, the apostles in denouncing them for rejecting a carnal Jesus, must have held that ❋ Unknown (1901)

Where is Hector to command the troll, change, to engage in carnal relations with a vicious predator? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Lord help us if old Jimmy gets any ideas along those lines, since his idea of carnal is probably a good old nose pick. ❋ Newmania (2007)

This mode of speaking is metonymical, and the word carnal "flesh," is used instead of carnal, by ❋ 1560-1609 (1956)

For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also -- "they owe it also" to minister unto them in carnal things -- (Compare 1Co 9: 11; Ga 6: 6; and see Lu 7: 4; Ac 10: 2). ❋ Unknown (1871)

For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things. ❋ Unknown (1721)

General and confused notions of divine things produce in carnal hearts some kind of desires towards them, and wishes of them; like Balaam's wish, to die the death of the righteous. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Note, Those deceive themselves who place their happiness in carnal joys; for God in his providence can soon cast a damp upon them and put an end to them. ❋ Unknown (1721)

God coming upon them, but these saw for them false burdens; the messages they pretended to deliver to them from God they knew to be false, and falsely ascribed to God; so that, by soothing them up in carnal security, they caused that banishment which, by plain dealing, they might have prevented. ❋ Unknown (1721)

It cuts off ignorance from the understanding, rebellion from the will, and enmity from the mind, which, when carnal, is enmity itself against God. ❋ Unknown (1721)

This was a reasonable request; for, if the Gentiles were made partakers of their spiritual things, it was their duty to minister to them in carnal things, as Rom. xv. ❋ Unknown (1721)

How these scornful men lulled themselves asleep in carnal security, and even challenged God Almighty to do his worst (v. 15) You have said, ❋ Unknown (1721)

It is the policy of Satan, when by his temptations he has drawn men from God and their duty, to rock them asleep in carnal security, that they may not be sensible of their misery and danger. ❋ Unknown (1721)

It was not so strange if those who had not the benefit of divine revelation suffered themselves to be lulled asleep by the devil in carnal security, and if they laid the reins upon the neck of their appetites, and indulged themselves in all manner of riot and excess; for it was night-time with them. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Note, Many are puffed up with pride, and rocked asleep in carnal security, by their church-privileges, and the place they have in Zion. ❋ Unknown (1721)

It is good for us often to remember those days of darkness, that we may not be lifted up with pride, nor lulled asleep in carnal security, nor even transported into indecencies by vain mirth. ❋ Unknown (1721)

That my argument is good you grant, saying, 'The divisions of the church at Corinth were about the highest fundamental principles, for which they are often called carnal'; yet you cavil at it. ❋ John Bunyan (1658)

Again and again, church fathers recycled the story of Eve to find evidence that women are more "carnal" -- more defined by and tied to "the flesh" -- than men, and thus more prone to give into temptation, and therefore in more need of supervision, regulation, and salvation. ❋ Michelle Lelwica (2010)

Wantonness and luxury are commonly the effects of great plenty and abundance; it is hard for people to have great plenty and abundance; it is hard for people to have great estates, and not too much indulge themselves in carnal, sensual pleasures: "You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter: you live as if it were every day a day of sacrifices, a festival; and hereby your hearts are fattened and nourished to stupidity, dulness, pride, and an insensibility to the wants and afflictions of others." ❋ Unknown (1721)

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