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    Bodily \Bod"i*ly\, a.
    1. Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal;
    consisting of matter.
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    You are a mere spirit, and have no knowledge of the
    bodily part of us. --Tatler.
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    2. Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the
    mind. "Bodily defects." --L'Estrange.
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    3. Real; actual; put in execution. [Obs.]
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    Be brought to bodily act. --Shak.
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    Bodily fear, apprehension of physical injury.
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    Syn: See Corporal.
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    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    Bodily \Bod"i*ly\, adv.
    1. Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter;
    in the body.
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    For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead
    bodily. --Col. ii. 9
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    2. In respect to, or so as to affect, the entire body or
    mass; entirely; all at once; completely; as, to carry away
    bodily. "Leapt bodily below." --Lowell.
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    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    bodily
    adj 1: of or relating to or belonging to the body; "a bodily
    organ"; "bodily functions"; "carnal remains" [syn: carnal]
    2: affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the
    mind or spirit; "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect";
    "corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic
    illness" [syn: corporal, corporeal, somatic]
    3: having or relating to a physical material body; "bodily
    existence"
    adv : in bodily form; "he was translated bodily to heaven"

    WordNet (r) 2.0


    93 Moby Thesaurus words for "bodily":
    Adamic, Circean, across the board, all, all put together,
    altogether, animal, animalistic, as a body, as a whole, at large,
    atavistic, beastlike, beastly, bestial, born, brutal, brute,
    brutish, carnal, carnal-minded, coarse, coeval, collectively,
    congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional,
    corporal, corporately, corporeal, earthly, earthy, en bloc,
    en masse, entirely, fallen, fleshly, genetic, gross, hereditary,
    hylic, in a body, in all, in all respects, in bulk,
    in its entirety, in person, in propria persona, in the aggregate,
    in the blood, in the flesh, in the gross, in the lump, in the mass,
    in toto, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, inherited, innate,
    instinctive, instinctual, lapsed, material, materialistic,
    materiate, native, native to, natural, natural to, nonspiritual,
    on all counts, organic, orgiastic, personally, physical,
    postlapsarian, primal, secular, sensual, somatic, substantial,
    swinish, temperamental, temporal, totally, tout ensemble,
    unspiritual, wholly, worldly

    Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0




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