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Webster 1913 Edition


Bodily

Bod′i-ly

,
Adj.
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.
Shakespeare
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Bodily

BOD'ILY

,
Adj.
Having or containing a body or material form; corporeal; as bodily dimensions.
1.
Relating or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind; as bodily defects; bodily pain.
2.
Real; actual; as bodily act.

BOD'ILY

,
adv.
Corporeally; united with a body or matter.
It is his human nature, in which the Godhead dwells bodily.