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.

 

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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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