carnate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin carnātus (“fleshy”), from carō (“meat, flesh”, oblique stem in carn-) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Adjective

carnate (not comparable)

1. Embodied in, or having, flesh (as opposed to just a spirit etc.).

   Synonym: incarnate

   the carnate world

   carnate devil

   • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume IV, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson;  […], →OCLC, page 342:

     I fear nothing […] that devil carnate or incarnate [the dangerous libertine Lovelace] can do

   • 1910 January 12, Ameen Rihani, The Book of Khalid, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published October 1911, →OCLC, book the third (In Kulmakan), page 297:

     "With my eyes open I see but one face; with my eyes closed I see a million faces: they are all yours. And they are loving, and sweet, and kind. But I am content with one, with the carnate symbol of them, with you […] "

Derived terms

• discarnate
• uncarnate
• uncarnated

Related terms

• carnal
• carnation
• carnivore
• carrion
• decarnate
• incarnate
• reincarnate

References

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

Anagrams

• Cantera, cane rat, cateran