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Bodily
CIDE DICTIONARY
Bodily, a.
- Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter. [1913 Webster]"You are a mere spirit, and have no knowledge of the bodily part of us." [1913 Webster]
- Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind. L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- Real; actual; put in execution. [1913 Webster]"Be brought to bodily act." [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- See Corporal.
Bodily, adv.
- Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body. [1913 Webster]"For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Bodily, adj. & adv.
--adj. of or concerning the body.
--adv.
1 with the whole bulk; as a whole (threw them bodily).
2 in the body; as a person.
--adj. of or concerning the body.
--adv.
1 with the whole bulk; as a whole (threw them bodily).
2 in the body; as a person.
THESAURUS
Bodily
Adamic, Circean, across the board, all, all put together, altogether, animal, animalistic, as a body, as a whole, at large, atavistic, beastlike, beastly, bestial, born, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal, carnal-minded, coarse, coeval, collectively, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, corporal, corporately, corporeal, earthly, earthy, en bloc, en masse, entirely, fallen, fleshly, genetic, gross, hereditary, hylic, in a body, in all, in all respects, in bulk, in its entirety, in person, in propria persona, in the aggregate, in the blood, in the flesh, in the gross, in the lump, in the mass, in toto, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, lapsed, material, materialistic, materiate, native, native to, natural, natural to, nonspiritual, on all counts, organic, orgiastic, personally, physical, postlapsarian, primal, secular, sensual, somatic, substantial, swinish, temperamental, temporal, totally, tout ensemble, unspiritual, wholly, worldlyROGET THESAURUS
Bodily
Substantiality
N substantiality, hypostasis, person, being, thing, object, article, item, something, a being, an existence, creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff, substratum, matter, corporeity, element, essential nature, groundwork, materiality, substantialness, vital part, world, plenum, substantive, substantial, hypostatic, personal, bodily, tangible, corporeal, substantially, bodily, essentially, substantiality, hypostasis, person, being, thing, object, article, item, something, a being, an existence, creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff, substratum, matter, corporeity, element, essential nature, groundwork, materiality, substantialness, vital part, world, plenum, substantive, substantial, hypostatic, personal, bodily, tangible, corporeal, substantially, bodily, essentially.Whole
N whole, totality, integrity, totalness, entirety, ensemble, collectiveness, unity, completeness, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, integration, embodiment, integer, all, the whole, total, aggregate, one and all, gross amount, sum, sum total, tout ensemble, length and breadth of, Alpha and Omega, be all and end all, complex, complexus, lock stock and barrel, bulk, mass, lump, tissue, staple, body, compages, trunk, torso, bole, hull, hulk, skeleton greater part, major part, best part, principal part, main part, essential part, lion's share, Benjamin's mess, the long and the short, nearly, all, almost all, whole, total, integral, entire, complete, one, individual, unbroken, intact, uncut, undivided, unsevered, unclipped, uncropped, unshorn, seamless, undiminished, undemolished, undissolved, undestroyed, unbruised, indivisible, indissoluble, indissolvable, indiscerptible, wholesale, sweeping, comprehensive, wholly, altogether, totally, entirely, all, all in all, as a whole, wholesale, in a body, collectively, all put together, in the aggregate, in the lump, in the mass, in the gross, in the main, in the long run, en masse, as a body, on the whole, bodily, en bloc, in extenso, throughout, every inch, substantially, tout bien ou rien.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.For further exploring for "Bodily" in Webster Dictionary Online