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発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈkɑɹnəl/
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)nəl

形容詞

carnal (comparative more carnal, superlative most carnal)

1. Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites or activities.
   • 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 29:

     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. Worldly or earthly; temporal.
3. Of or relating to the body or flesh.

派生語

関連する語

• incarnate
• incarnation
• reincarnate
• reincarnation

Further reading

• “carnal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “carnal”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.