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carnal definition

car·nal (kär′nəl)

adjective

  1. in or of the flesh; bodily; material or worldly, not spiritual
  2. having to do with or preoccupied with bodily or sexual pleasures; sensual or sexual

Etymology: ME & OFr < LL(Ec) carnalis, fleshly (in contrast to spiritalis, spiritual) < L caro (gen. carnis), flesh: for IE base see harvest

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carnal Idioms

have carnal knowledge of

to have had sexual intercourse with

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