carnify

English

Etymology

From Latin carnificare, from Latin carnis (“flesh”) + facere (“to make”). Compare French carnifier.

Verb

carnify (third-person singular simple present carnifies, present participle carnifying, simple past and past participle carnified)

1. (intransitive) To form flesh; to become like flesh.
   • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:

     The Soul […] digests , sanguifies , carnifies , excerns and doth all those Involuntary operations by it influence and presence

Derived terms

• recarnify

References

“carnify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.