recarnify

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ carnify.

Verb

recarnify (third-person singular simple present recarnifies, present participle recarnifying, simple past and past participle recarnified)

1. (obsolete) To convert again into flesh.
   • 1655, James Howell, “To my Hon. Friend, Sir S. C.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:

     I fell to consider that the Flesh which is daily dish'd upon our Tables is but concocted grass, which is recarnified in our stomachs

References

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