adv. [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, Calvin’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. Thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbours wife, to defile thy selfe with her.
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: but to be spiritually minded, is life and peace.
1685. Baxter, Paraphr. N. T., Mark xii. 24. Carnal Men think Carnally of things Heavenly.
1714. Nelson, Bp. Bull, xxxvi. Either spiritually or carnally.
