v. To make physical or materialistic, as opposed to spiritual
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
v. To make carnal; to debase to carnality.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To make carnal; debase to carnality.
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v. represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture
v. ascribe to an origin in sensation
v. debase through carnal gratification
Word Usage
"The former have been regarded, like their corresponding mental passions, as something of a lower and baser nature, tending to degrade and carnalize man by their physical appetites."