Word: carnification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French carnification. Pronunciation: /ˌkɑːnɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, /ˌkɑɹnɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ 1. A pathological process in which chronic inflammation or infection causes lung tissue to organize into a fibrous form that resembles meat, which can lead to a loss of normal lung function. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Carnification is held to be most common in new-born children; after the fifth year it is comparatively unfrequent in occurrence; whilst in adults it is very rarely met with; but in aged people again becomes more common , though still less so than in early life. Example: The lesions alluded to are those which have been hitherto described under the names of lobular pneumonia and carnification. 2. A similar pathological transformation to other types of tissue so that it becomes fibrous and dense. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: One grade of inflammatory irritation produces carnification or hepatization of the medullary tissue, another grade suppuration, and a still higher degree of inflammatory irritation produces gangrene of that tissue. Example: The liver was not cirrhosed, as he had believed, but was in a state of carnification. 3. The literal transformation of something into flesh or meat. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The room AX is pacing in looks CUTE ('cut!' with an 'e' which, in turn, stands for eye; an eye of carnification that turns bread into flesh; good enough to eat once the carnifex has made the split into a shift, which is not the end of it; an eye of mastication, obviously of great value – canine, yet kingly – carpe diem to the appetite, never mind the digestion as long as one can chew sight to a pulp, swallow, and feel all the better for it; […] Example: Brooks Bouson also remarks on the fact that Year also draws much of its abject horror from its vision of the male "''carnification" of the female subject: that is, the reduction of the woman to a fleshly object or to meat or to a rotting corpse' (p. 13). 4. The transformation of something into a human being. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Alongside these radiant, clamorous sisters with their luminous eyes and rich curves, Hennie appeared – and was– frail, muted, secretive, nothing at all like an expected carnfication of his full name, Hendrik. Example: Bulgakov does not see this divine-human communication as being 'asymmetrical', such that while the human is divinized, the divine is unaffected by the human, which, a traditional opinion says, would only result in its 'carnification' . 5. The process of something nonphysical taking on a physical form (not necessarily involving flesh). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Ptah-Seth and Sekmet whirl in utter disorientation, dizzy with the loss of time and reality, utterly confused and shattered by the destruction of their first carnification and the change to another form. Example: But life is lived in such a way that this carnification of implicit ghosts occurs most commonly in joking. 6. Carnal (sexual) activity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Yet the spaces between the photos are not so unfleshly: sanguinary parturition, placid blood-warmth of lactation, mysterious lone carnification of my and my husband's love in this marriage-bed– all even more inviolable for being so privately, so unimmortally mine Example: There will be no carnification in this house!