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Bodily
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Part of speech: adjective (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.
Synonyms: See Corporal.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: adverb (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.