bodily
see also: Bodily
Pronunciation Adjective
Bodily
Proper noun
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see also: Bodily
Pronunciation Adjective
bodily
- Of, relating to, or concerning the body.
- His bodily deficiencies were a heavy burden to him.
- Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal.
- You are a mere spirit, and have no knowledge of the bodily part of us.
- Real; actual; put into execution.
- c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene ii]:
- Be brought to bodily act.
- French: corporel
- German: körperlich
- Italian: corporale, corporeo
- Portuguese: corporal, corpóreo
- Russian: теле́сный
- Spanish: corporal, corpóreo
bodily (not comparable)
- In bodily#Adjective|bodily form; physically, corporally.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Colossians 2:9 ↗:
- For in him dwelleth all the fulneſſe of the Godhead bodily.
- Pertaining to the whole body or mass; wholly.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
- The papering of one side of the room had dropped down bodily, with fragments of plaster adhering to it, and almost blocked up the door.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
- Forcefully, vigorously.
- He was thrown bodily out of the house.
- bodyaciously (obsolete, dialect, rare)
- Italian: corporalmente
- Spanish: corporalmente
Bodily
Proper noun
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