Obs. A perversion of cardinal.
a. 1528. Skelton, Image Hypocr., II. 429. Be they not carnalles, And lordes infernalles?
1543. Becon, Pol. Warre, Pref. One … an Englishe man borne daunceth now like a Traytoure in a Carnalles wede at Rome.
1598. Barkcley, Felic. Man (1631), 51. This Cardinall, or rather carnall, and his brother, were both extremely in love with one woman.
