recarnify

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verb

To convert again into flesh.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

verbrecarnify (third-person singular simple present recarnifies, present participle recarnifying, simple past and past participle recarnified)

present singular third person recarnifies · participle present recarnifying · participle past recarnified · past recarnified

  1. obsoleteTo convert again into flesh.

    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

    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

Origin

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