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Carnal

//ˈkɑɹnəl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    Worldly or earthly; temporal.
  3. 3
    Of or relating to the body or flesh.
Adjective
  1. 1
    marked by the appetites and passions of the body wordnet
  2. 2
    of or relating to the body or flesh wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English, from Latin carnālis (“fleshly, of the flesh”), from carō (“flesh”).

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