physical

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: phys=i=cal
• COUNT in NET: 15 in 14 verses (in OT : 6 in 5 verses) (in NT : 9 in 9 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

physical, a. 

•  Of or pertaining to nature (as including all created existences); in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or relating to natural or material things, or to the bodily structure, as opposed to things mental, moral, spiritual, or imaginary; material; natural; as, armies and navies are the physical force of a nation; the body is the physical part of man.  [1913 Webster]

  "Labor, in the physical world, is . . . employed in putting objects in motion."  [1913 Webster]

  "A society sunk in ignorance, and ruled by mere physical force."  [1913 Webster]
•  Of or pertaining to physics, or natural philosophy; treating of, or relating to, the causes and connections of natural phenomena; as, physical science; physical laws.  Pope.  [1913 Webster]
•  Perceptible through a bodily or material organization; cognizable by the senses; external; as, the physical, opposed to chemical, characters of a mineral.  [1913 Webster]
•  Of or pertaining to physic, or the art of medicine; medicinal; curative; healing; also, cathartic; purgative.  Sir T. North.  [1913 Webster]

  "Is Brutus sick? and is it physical
  To walk unbraced, and suck up the humors
  Of the dank morning?"  [1913 Webster]

Physical astronomy, that part of astronomy which treats of the causes of the celestial motions; specifically, that which treats of the motions resulting from universal gravitation. -- Physical education, training of the bodily organs and powers with a view to the promotion of health and vigor. -- Physical examination (Med.), an examination of the bodily condition of a person. -- Physical geography. See under Geography. -- Physical point, an indefinitely small portion of matter; a point conceived as being without extension, yet having physical properties, as weight, inertia, momentum, etc.; a material point. -- Physical signs (Med.), the objective signs of the bodily state afforded by a physical examination.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

physical, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of or concerning the body (physical exercise; physical education).
2 of matter; material (both mental and physical force).
3 a of, or according to, the laws of nature (a physical impossibility). b belonging to physics (physical science).
--n. (in full physical examination) a medical examination to determine physical fitness.

Idiom

physical chemistry the application of physics to the study of chemical behaviour. physical geography geography dealing with natural features. physical jerks colloq. physical exercises. physical science the sciences used in the study of inanimate natural objects, e.g. physics, chemistry, astronomy, etc. physical training exercises promoting bodily fitness and strength.

Derivative

physicality n. physically adv. physicalness n.

Etymology

ME f. med.L physicalis f. L physica (as PHYSIC)

THESAURUS

physical

Adamic, Circean, actual, aerophysical, animal, animalistic, astrophysical, atavistic, beastlike, beastly, bestial, bodily, born, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal, carnal-minded, check, checkup, coarse, coeval, concrete, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, corporal, corporeal, earthly, earthy, elemental, elementary, fallen, fleshly, genetic, gross, hereditary, hylic, in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, lapsed, lusty, manifest, material, materialistic, materiate, mortal, native, native to, natural, natural to, nonspiritual, objective, organic, orgiastic, palpable, phenomenal, physical examination, postlapsarian, primal, real, secular, sensible, solid, somatic, spot check, substantial, swinish, tangible, temperamental, temporal, true, unspiritual, visceral, worldly

ROGET THESAURUS

physical

Materiality

N materiality, materialness, corporeity, corporality, substantiality, substantialness, flesh and blood, plenum, physical condition, matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle, parenchyma, material, substratum, hyle, corpus, pabulum, frame, object, article, thing, something, still life, stocks and stones, materials, physics, somatology, somatics, natural philosophy, experimental philosophy, physicism, physical science, philosophie positive, materialism, materialist, physicist, somatism, somatist, material, bodily, corporeal, corporal, physical, somatic, somatoscopic, sensible, tangible, ponderable, palpable, substantial, objective, impersonal, nonsubjective, neuter, unspiritual, materialistic.