Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language 1. (a.) Devoted to the pleasures of sense and appetite; luxurious; voluptuous; lewd; libidinous. 2. (a.) Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit. 3. (a.) Hence, not spiritual or intellectual; carnal; fleshly; pertaining to, or consisting in, the gratification of the senses, or the indulgence of appetites; worldly. 4. (a.) Pertaining or peculiar to the philosophical doctrine of sensualism.
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