Definitions for: Bodily


[adv] in bodily form; "he was translated bodily to heaven"
[adj] having or relating to a physical material body; "bodily existence"
[adj] 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"
[adj] of or relating to or belonging to the body; "a bodily organ"; "bodily functions"; "carnal remains"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.


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.

Synonyms: carnal, corporal, corporeal, material, physical, somatic

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