carnally, adv.
(ˈkɑːnəlɪ)
[f. carnal a. + -ly2.]
1. Corporeally, bodily; ‘in the flesh’.
| 1539 Tonstall Serm. Palm Sund. (1823) 43 That Christe..shall reygne with all his sayntes here in erthe carnally. 1561 T. Norton Calvins's Inst. i. 25 Men do not beleue that God is among them, vnlesse he shew himself carnally present. 1607 Dekker Northw. Hoe iv. i. Wks. 1873 III. 49 What saies the deuill..for Ime sure thou art carnally possest with him. 1847 De Quincey Sp. Mil. Nun Wks. III. 21 Gross men, carnally deaf from eating garlic and onions. |
2. In the way of carnal intercourse.
| 1474 Caxton Chesse 114 He knewe hys doughters carnelly. 1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII, xii, To the whiche prince Arthur, the said lady Catherine was lawfully maried, and by him carnallie knowen. c 1610 Female Saints (1886) 180 Some may thinke perhaps that..he vsed her carnallie. 1611 Bible Lev. xviii. 20. 1686 Col. Rec. Penn. I. 176 Being Carnally Concerned with a Woman Servant. |
3. In an unspiritual manner; as a ‘carnal’ or unregenerate person; ‘according to the flesh’.
| 1527 Tindale Doct. Treat. (1848) 43 Because either of us looked carnally for him. 1561 T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. xi. (1634) 38 They carnally worshipped God in stocks and stones. 1611 Bible Rom. viii. 6 To be carnally minded, is death. 1685 Baxter Paraphr. Mark xii. 24 Carnal Men think carnally of things Heavenly. 1714 Nelson Bp. Bull xxxvi, Either spiritually or carnally. |