CARNATE
\kˈɑːne͡ɪt], \kˈɑːneɪt], \k_ˈɑː_n_eɪ_t]\
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By Noah Webster.
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Invested with or embodied in flesh: same as the modern INCARNATE, which word, however, is used in the extract as if the in-were privative. "I fear nothing . . . that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do against a virtue so established."-Richardson.
By Daniel Lyons