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A Charnel house is a vault or building where corpses and/or bones are stored. They are often built near churches for depositing bones that are unearthed while digging graves. The term can also be used more generally as a description of a place filled with death and destruction.

Often, where ground suitable for burial was scarce, corpses would be allotted a certain period of temporary interment following death. This enabled the relics to be collected and the ground re-used for further burial. This especially occurs in particularly rocky or arid places.

carnal fleshly sensual animal mean having a relation to the body. carnal may mean only this but more often connotes derogatorily an action or manifestation of a person’s lower nature (”a slave to carnal desires”). fleshly is less derogatory than carnal (”a saint who had experienced fleshly temptations”). sensual may apply to any gratification of a bodily desire or pleasure but commonly implies sexual appetite with absence of the spiritual or intellectual (”fleshpots providing sensual delights”). animal stresses the physical as distinguished from the rational nature of a person (”led a mindless animal existence”).

See also: Sarcophagus, which etymologically breaks down to mean “corpse eater.”