Carnal

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
carnal
    adj 1: marked by the appetites and passions of the body; "animal
           instincts"; "carnal knowledge"; "fleshly desire"; "a
           sensual delight in eating"; "music is the only sensual
           pleasure without vice" [syn: {animal(a)}, {carnal},
           {fleshly}, {sensual}]
    2: of or relating to the body or flesh; "carnal remains"
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Carnal \Car"nal\, a. [L. carnalis, fr. caro, carnis, flesh; akin
   to Gr. ?, Skr. kravya; cf. F. charnel, Of. also carnel. Cf.
   {Charnel}.]
   1. Of or pertaining to the body or its appetites; animal;
      fleshly; sensual; given to sensual indulgence; lustful;
      human or worldly as opposed to {spiritual}.
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            For ye are yet carnal.                --1 Cor. iii.
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            Not sunk in carnal pleasure.          --Milton
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            Carnal desires after miracles.        --Trench.
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   2. Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody. [Obs.]
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            This carnal cur
            Preys on the issue of his mother's body. --Shak.
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   {Carnal knowledge}, sexual intercourse; -- used especially of
      an unlawful act on the part of the man.
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from Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Carnal
Unconverted men are so called (1 Cor. 3:3). They are represented
as of a "carnal mind, which is enmity against God" (Rom. 8:6,
7). Enjoyments that minister to the wants and desires of man's
animal nature are so called (Rom. 15:27; 1 Cor. 9:11). The
ceremonial of the Mosaic law is spoken of as "carnal," because
it related to things outward, the bodies of men and of animals,
and the purification of the flesh (Heb. 7:16; 9:10). The weapons
of Christian warfare are "not carnal", that is, they are not of
man's device, nor are wielded by human power (2 Cor. 10:4).
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
113 Moby Thesaurus words for "carnal":
      Adamic, Circean, Philistine, amorous, animal, animalistic,
      aphrodisiomaniacal, backsliding, bawdy, beastlike, beastly,
      bestial, bodily, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal-minded,
      clitoromaniacal, coarse, concupiscent, corporal, corporeal, dirty,
      earthly, earthy, erogenic, erogenous, erotic, eroticomaniacal,
      erotogenic, erotomaniacal, erring, fallen, fleshly, frail, gamic,
      goatish, gross, gynecomaniacal, heterosexual, horny, hot,
      hysteromaniacal, impure, infirm, ithyphallic, lapsed, lascivious,
      lecherous, lewd, libidinal, libidinous, licentious, lickerish,
      lubricious, lustful, material, materialistic, mundane,
      nonspiritual, nuptial, nymphomaniacal, obscene, of easy virtue,
      orgiastic, oversexed, pandemic, peccable, physical, postlapsarian,
      potent, priapic, procreative, prodigal, profane, prurient, randy,
      recidivist, recidivistic, salacious, satyric, secular, sensual,
      sensuous, sex, sexed, sexlike, sexual, sexy, somatic, straight,
      substantial, swinish, temporal, terrestrial, unangelic, unchaste,
      unclean, undersexed, ungodly, ungood, unrighteous, unsaintly,
      unspiritual, unvirtuous, venereal, virtueless, voluptuous, vulgar,
      wanton, wayward, weak, worldly

    

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