Meaning of BODILY
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- [adv] in bodily form; "he was translated bodily to heaven"
- [adj] having or relating to a physical material body; "bodily existence"
- [adj] 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"
- [adj] of or relating to or belonging to the body; "a bodily organ"; "bodily functions"; "carnal remains"
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\Bod"i*ly\, a.
1. Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal;
consisting of matter.
You are a mere spirit, and have no knowledge of the
bodily part of us. --Tatler.
2. Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the
mind. ``Bodily defects.'' --L'Estrange.
3. Real; actual; put in execution. [Obs.]
Be brought to bodily act. --Shak.
{Bodily fear}, apprehension of physical injury.
Syn: See {Corporal}.
\Bod"i*ly\, adv.
1. Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter;
in the body.
For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead
bodily. --Col. ii. 9
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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| | Related Terms: | | across the board, Adamic, 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, Circean, 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 |
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