carkeys

plural carkeyses

1. obsoleteObsolete form of carcass.

   But then followd a wonderfull thing: for this bloodlesse carkeys return'd to life, and resuming its former strength, came out of the sepulcher which remaind seald as before.

   1668, Serenus de Cressy, The Church-History of Brittany From the Beginning of Christianity to the Norman Conquest Under Roman Governours, Brittish Kings, the English-Saxon Heptarchy, the English-Saxon (and Danish) Monarchy, […], page 97

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   […] so it is extreme foly for ye mynde, to be slaue vnto fonde affections, and to serue at a becke, the vyle carkeys, neyther the dygnitie of nature, neyther the expresse lawe of god, any thynge regarded.

   1544, Ludouicus Viues [Juan Luis Vives], translated by Rycharde Morysine, An Introduction to VVysedome, London: […] Thomae Betheleti […], →OCLC, page 12

   It was no great thyng foꝛ our loꝛde to reyſe a carkeys that laye .iiii. daies deade, it is a greatter maiſtrie, to reyſe a ſynner, that .xl. yeres lyued not, but laie ſtill ſtinkyng and defyled with all maner of fylthy ſynne.

   1547 [1524], Desiderius Erasmus, translated by Gentian Hervetus, De Immensa Dei Misericordia, London: Tho. Berth, page 49

   […] he turned aſide to ſee the carkeys of the Lyon, and founde of the bellye thereof, a ſwarme of Bees and hony, whereof he tooke in his hande, and went eating to his Father and mother, ⁊ gaue their parte of the Hony.

   1574, Iohn Marbecke [i.e. John Marbecke], The lyues of holy Sainctes, […], London: Henry Denham, and Richard Watkins, page 284

   Your carkeyſes ſhall fall in this wilderneſſe, and all you that were counted through all your numbers, from twentie yeere olde and aboue, which haue murmured againſt me, […]

   1582, The Bible: That Is, the Holy Scriptures Conteined in the Olde and Newe Testament, London: Christopher Barker, folio 61, verso

1. pluralplural of carkey