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carnall

carnall is the obsolete spelling of carnal.

Meaning of carnal

Adjective

carnal (comparative more carnal, superlative most carnal)

  1. Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites or activities.
    • At the town of Mendes, in the principal temple, there was a living male goat, with which, if the statement of Herodotus is to be accepted, naked female worshippers actually had carnal intercourse.1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 29
  2. Worldly or earthly; temporal.
  3. Of or relating to the body or flesh.

Forms of carnall

comparativemore carnall
superlativemost carnall

Questions about carnall

What is carnall the obsolete spelling of?
Carnall is the obsolete spelling of carnal.

Words near carnall in the dictionary

  1. carnalization
  2. carnalize
  3. carnalized
  4. carnalizes
  5. carnalizing
  6. carnall
  7. carnallite
  8. carnallites
  9. carnallitic
  10. carnally
  11. carnalness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carnall (page history and authors); carnal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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