'Bodily' definitions:
Definition of 'bodily'
(from WordNet)
adverb
In bodily form; "he was translated bodily to heaven"
adjective
Of or relating to or belonging to the body; "a bodily organ"; "bodily functions"
adjective
Affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect"; "corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic illness" [syn: bodily, corporal, corporeal, somatic]
adjective
Having or relating to a physical material body; "bodily existence"
Definition of 'Bodily'
From: GCIDE
- Bodily \Bod"i*ly\, a.
- 1. 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. --Tatler. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind. "Bodily defects." --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Real; actual; put in execution. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Be brought to bodily act. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Bodily fear, apprehension of physical injury. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: See Corporal. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bodily'
From: GCIDE
- Bodily \Bod"i*ly\, adv.
- 1. 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. --Col. ii. 9 [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bodily'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- across the board,
- Adamic,
- 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,
- Circean,
- 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,
- worldly