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carnify

carnify verb: to form flesh; to become like flesh.

Verb

carnify (third-person singular simple present carnifies, present participle carnifying, simple past and past participle carnified)

  1. (intransitive) To form flesh; to become like flesh.
    • The Soul […] digests , sanguifies , carnifies , excerns and doth all those Involuntary operations by it influence and presencea. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […]...

Forms of carnify

third-person singular presentcarnifies
present participlecarnifying
past participlecarnified
pastcarnified

Origin of carnify

From Latin carnificare, from Latin carnis (“flesh”) + facere (“to make”). Compare French carnifier.

Words formed from carnify

Questions about carnify

What does carnify mean?
Carnify means to form flesh; to become like flesh.
What part of speech is carnify?
Carnify is a verb.
What is the past tense of carnify?
The past tense of carnify is carnified.

Words near carnify in the dictionary

  1. carnifications
  2. carnifices
  3. carnificial
  4. carnified
  5. carnifies
  6. carnify
  7. carnifying
  8. carnin
  9. Carniola
  10. Carniolan
  11. Carniolan honeybee

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