recarnify
English
Verb
recarnify (third-person singular simple present recarnifies, present participle recarnifying, simple past and past participle recarnified)
- (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
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References
“recarnify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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