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Definition of Carnifying
1. carnify [v] - See also: carnify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carnifying
Literary usage of Carnifying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1872)
"There is a type other than this, where a leonine expression arises from the
spreading equally over the features of the fleshy or carnifying substance, ..."
2. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1845)
"... and this had given rise to a thick false membrane and a large effusion of
turbid serum carnifying the left lung. The heart's position was unchanged. ..."
3. Observations in clinical surgery by James Syme (1862)
"Instead, therefore, of using applications with a view to promote the formation
of new tissues, or what the old surgeons called " carnifying" means, ..."
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