Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a carnal or fleshly mind; unspiritual.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Worldly-minded.

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Examples

  • He fell in with several of the more carnal-minded youth of the place, who invited him to be sociable and take a hand at poker.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • I will expound to you — as I alone can — the secret of the enginery that effected the Rattleborough miracle — the one, the true, the admitted, the undisputed, the indisputable miracle, which put a definite end to infidelity among the Rattleburghers and converted to the orthodoxy of the grandames all the carnal-minded who had ventured to be sceptical before.

    Thou Art the Man 2006

  • This is solemn work, and not to be effected by the carnal-minded.

    Washington Irving 2004

  • I am no carnal-minded lover, but one of the chaste, platonic sort.

    Don Quixote 2002

  • This is solemn work, and not to be effected by the carnal-minded.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • This is solemn work, and not to be effected by the carnal-minded.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • He allows himself certain indulgences which are to be regretted, and his mind is becoming clogged by continual association with carnal-minded men.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • His doctrine in the dark: but He says this because His speech is darkness to the carnal-minded, and His words are night to the unbeliever.

    Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas

  • This is not in any sense an abasement of the self; not in any sense a feeling that it is necessary to "bow down and worship;" nor yet a tinge of that nameless fear, which the carnal-minded self feels in the presence of exalted beings.

    Cosmic Consciousness

  • The greatness of wisdom, which is nothing if not of God, is invisible to the carnal-minded and to the clever.

    Pens��es 1623-1662 1944

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