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to sensual indulgence; lustful; human or worldly as opposed to spiritual. For ye are yet carnal. 1 Car. iii. 3. Not sunk in carnal pleasure. Milton rnal desires after miracles. Trench.

Worldly-minded.

Grossness of mind.

The state of being carnal; carnality; sensualism. [R.]

A sensualist. Burton.

The state of being carnal; fleshly lust, or the indulgence of lust; grossness of mind. Because of the carnality of their hearts. Tillotson.

To make carnal; to debase to carnality. A sensual and carnalized spirit. John Scott.

A hydrous chloride of potassium and magnesium, sometimes found associated with deposits of rock salt.

to human nature; in a manner to gratify animal appetites and lusts; sensually. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Rom. viii. 6.

To carnalize; to make gross. [R.] "Encarnalize their spirits." Tennyson.

ng the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual. Shak.

A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman. Carnal, greedy people, without such a precept, would have no mercy upon their poor bondsmen. Derham.

Sexual lust; morbid carnal passion. Concupiscence like a pestilence walketh in darkness. Horne.

passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate. We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts. Shak. To cool the heels, to dance attendance; to wait, as for admission to a patron's house. [Colloq.] Dryden.

point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at. Let them therefore declare what carnal or secular interest he drove at. South.

; belonging to this world, or to man's existence on the earth; not heavenly or spiritual; carnal; worldly; as, earthly joys; earthly flowers; earthly praise. This earthly load Of death, called life. Milton. Whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. Phil. iii. 19.

Of or pertaining to the earth or to, this world; earthly; terrestrial; carnal. [R.] "Their earthy charge." Milton. The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy. 1 Cor. xv. 47, 48 (Rev. Ver. ) Earthy spirits black and envious are. Dryden.…

bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.

The state of being fleshly; carnal passions and appetites. Spenser.

Carnal; wordly; lascivious. Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. 1 Pet. ii. 11.