What is "carnal"

Usage examples of "carnal".

With the moderate Docetes, he revered Mary as the spiritual, rather than as the carnal, mother of Christ, whose body either came from heaven, impassible and incorruptible, or was absorbed, and as it were transformed, into the essence of the Deity.

I cannot stop remembering how she welcomed the carnal depravity that Dracula brought to our bed.

If those who hold the common doctrine of a carnal resurrection should carry it out with philosophical consistency, by extending the scheme it involves to all existing planetary races as well as to their own, should they cause that process of imagination which produced this doctrine to go on to its legitimate completion, they would see in the final consummation the sundered earths approach each other, and firmaments conglobe, till at last the whole universe concentred in one orb.

Then a Landscaper had altered the world, turning those streets into a separate landscape, and that had changed the feel of living on those streets, had changed the taverns, gambling houses, and brothels into a carnal carnival.

The halves of George were at the moment served by two female Oganta one of them as spiritual, one of them as carnal as it is possible for neotenic frog-humans to be.

Moreover, by the growth of carnal concupiscence natural reason was clouded even in regard to sins against nature.

The Talmudists generally believed also in the pre existence of souls in heaven, and in a spiritual body investing and fitting the soul for heaven, as the present carnal body invests and fits it for the earth.

At the same time, the abbot of Doncaster sued up the payment of certain moneys, which the earl, whose revenue ran a losing race with his hospitality, had borrowed at sundry times of the said abbot: for the abbots and the bishops were the chief usurers of those days, and, as the end sanctifies the means, were not in the least scrupulous of employing what would have been extortion in the profane, to accomplish the pious purpose of bringing a blessing on the land by rescuing it from the frail hold of carnal and temporal into the firmer grasp of ghostly and spiritual possessors.

Meredydd had for the first time in his lonely life come to a true understanding of the affections and yearnings that bards wrote about, and the carnal knowledge they did not write about.

Mair curtseyed deeply, lowering her gaze in a gesture that might have been humble, if not for the carnal glint in her eyes.

Back home, there followed a detailed bout of valedictory lovemaking, with Selina game and longsuffering, and me as effusively carnal as ever.

Let us not mistake the nature of a real civilization, nor suppose we have it because we can convert crude iron into the most delicate mechanism, or transport ourselves sixty miles an hour, or even if we shall refine our carnal tastes so as to be satisfied at dinner with the tongues of ortolans and the breasts of singing-birds.

Would these pious presbyters spend their nights in carnal pleasure, only to turn around the next day and condemn sinful humankind?

I spent one hour with her, fighting like Saint Anthony against the carnal desires of my nature.

In the Sumnia Theologica Thomas Aquinas most usually uses the term carnal intercourse, and then there's coition, or vera copula, but it is hard for me to think of-us-in those terms.