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Definition of Carnal knowledge
1. Noun. The act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur.
Generic synonyms: Sex, Sex Activity, Sexual Activity, Sexual Practice
Specialized synonyms: Defloration, Ass, Fuck, Fucking, Nookie, Nooky, Piece Of Ass, Piece Of Tail, Roll In The Hay, Screw, Screwing, Shag, Shtup, Hank Panky, Penetration, Criminal Congress, Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
Terms within: Insemination
Derivative terms: Coital, Copulate
Definition of Carnal knowledge
1. Noun. (archaic) Sexual intercourse. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carnal Knowledge
Literary usage of Carnal knowledge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall, Herschel Bouton Lazell (1905)
"Similar statutes have been enacted in this country.884 In some states the statute
punishes the carnal knowledge of girls of as much as sixteen years of age, ..."
2. Commentaries on the Criminal Law by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1877)
"The carnal knowledge necessary. § 1127. In Brief. — There must be penetration ;
there need not be emission. But the following explanations are desirable . ..."
3. A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States by Francis Wharton (1874)
"person shall have unlawful carnal knowledge of a woman, forcibly and ... Proof of
carnal knowledge. — It shall not be necessary, in any case of rape, ..."
4. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"carnal knowledge not material in this Controversy. Nor doth it any thing alter
the case, (what was so much controverted in the court of Rome,) whether or no ..."
5. Elementary Law by William Callyhan Robinson (1882)
"The Unlawful carnal knowledge. carnal knowledge is always lawful, when it takes
place ... All unlawful carnal knowledge is rape, unless the woman gives her ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Criminal Evidence: Including the Rules Regulating by Harry Clay Underhill (1898)
"Proof of carnal knowledge requisite.—Despite some lack of harmony in the early
English cases, it is now settled that an allegation of carnal knowledge is ..."
7. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1892)
"So, in Alabama, rape and carnal knowledge of an infant under ten years of age
are not identical, and an indictment for rape is not sustained when it is ..."
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