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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