fleshly

4 definitions found

fleshly - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Fleshly \Flesh"ly\, adv.
     In a fleshly manner; carnally; lasciviously. [Obs.]
     --Chaucer.
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  Fleshly \Flesh"ly\ (fl[e^]sh"l[y^]), a. [AS. fl[=ae]scl[imac]c.]
     1. Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal. "Fleshly
        bondage." --Denham.
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     2. Animal; not vegetable. --Dryden.
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     3. Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine. "Fleshly
        wisdom." --2 Cor. i. 12.
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              Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm
              And fragile arms.                     --Milton.
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     4. Carnal; wordly; lascivious.
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              Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the
              soul.                                 --1 Pet. ii.
                                                    11.
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fleshly - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  fleshly
      adj 1: marked by the appetites and passions of the body; "animal
             instincts"; "carnal knowledge"; "fleshly desire"; "a
             sensual delight in eating"; "music is the only sensual
             pleasure without vice" [syn: animal(a), carnal,
             fleshly, sensual]

fleshly - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  135 Moby Thesaurus words for "fleshly":
     Adamic, Adamite, Adamitic, Circean, amorous, animal, animalistic,
     anthropocentric, anthropological, aphrodisiomaniacal, backsliding,
     bawdy, beastlike, beastly, bestial, bodily, brutal, brute, brutish,
     carnal, carnal-minded, clitoromaniacal, coarse, concupiscent,
     corporal, corporeal, dirty, earthly, earthy, epicurean, erogenic,
     erogenous, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotogenic, erotomaniacal,
     erring, fallen, finite, frail, gamic, goatish, gross,
     gynecomaniacal, heterosexual, hominal, homocentric, horny, hot,
     human, humanistic, hylic, hysteromaniacal, impure, infirm,
     ithyphallic, lapsed, lascivious, lay, lecherous, lewd, libidinal,
     libidinous, lickerish, lubricious, lustful, luxurious,
     man-centered, material, materialistic, materiate, mortal, mundane,
     nonsacred, nonspiritual, nuptial, nymphomaniacal, obscene,
     of easy virtue, only human, orgiastic, oversexed, peccable,
     physical, postlapsarian, potent, priapic, procreative, prodigal,
     profane, prurient, randy, recidivist, recidivistic, reprobate,
     salacious, satyric, secular, sensual, sensuous, sex, sexed,
     sexlike, sexual, sexy, somatic, straight, substantial, swinish,
     sybaritic, tellurian, temporal, unangelic, unblessed, unchaste,
     unclean, undersexed, ungodly, ungood, unhallowed, unholy,
     unregenerate, unrighteous, unsacred, unsaintly, unsanctified,
     unspiritual, unvirtuous, venereal, virtueless, voluptuous, wanton,
     wayward, weak, worldly