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adjective

Bodily adj.

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."

Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind. "Bodily defects."

Real; actual; put in execution. (Obs.) "Be brought to bodily act."

Bodily fear, apprehension of physical injury.

Synonyms: See Corporal.

adverb

Bodily adv.

Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body. "For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily."

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."

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Etymology of 'Bodily'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bodily" Quotes from Famous Books

... and bodily development is slow. There is extraordinary disproportion between the different parts of the body. The condition is sometimes not recognized until the child is six or seven years old, then the slow development is noticed. ...

— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... in danger of death, my lord, or grievous bodily hurt? Else I fear I should break the rules of the game and dash ...

— Tom Tufton's Travels • Evelyn Everett-Green

... a little one to a youth whose fame in the cricket field stood so high, and who was never happy or healthy without strong bodily exercise. Nor had he outgrown his taste for this particular sport. Professor Edwin Palmer (alluded to above) describes him as at this time 'a thorough public schoolboy, with a full capacity for enjoying undergraduate society and undergraduate amusements, though with so fond a recollection ...

— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge

... instance, you should happen in awaking to notice a few black or brown beetles running about your pillow, restrain your murderous hand! If you kill them you commit an act of unnecessary bloodshed; for though they may playfully scamper around you, they will do you no bodily harm. ...

— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace

... It must certainly have been irritating to good Bishop Trilleck "gratus, prudens, pius" as the mutilated inscription on his effigy describes him, when one William Corbet forced his way into the palace, carried away the porter bodily, shut him in the city gaol, and took away ...

— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description - Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See • A. Hugh Fisher

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