Obs. [a. OF. carnation, -acion = incarnation (perh. aphetic form).] = Incarnation.
c. 1410. Love, Bonavent. Mirr., iii. (Gibbs MS.). Þe secund Adame cryste god and man reformed his ymage in his carnacioun.
1570–87. Holinshed, Scot. Chron. (1806), I. 395. He was slain the year of the carnation 1057.
1710. Hopkins, Wks., 716 (R.). The … temporal carnation of the Son of God.
