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Bodily   /bˈɑdəli/   Listen
Bodily

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or belonging to the body.  "Bodily functions"
2.
Affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit.  Synonyms: corporal, corporeal, somatic.  "A corporal defect" , "Corporeal suffering" , "A somatic symptom or somatic illness"
3.
Having or relating to a physical material body.
adverb
1.
In bodily form.



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"Bodily" Quotes from Famous Books



... more than any other bodily organ he owns," was the reply. Evidently Mr. Aaron Rushton's temper had a razor edge ...
— The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove - Or, The Missing Chest of Gold • Spencer Davenport
... ordinary arm and breast hold. Ishmael, after a few moments of this immobile straining, let go Doughty's arm to seize him by the back of the collar, and Doughty, profiting in a flash by the steeper angle of inclination, caught him square under the arms and raised him bodily ...
— Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse
... regarded as complete without the biotic and psychic elements that sprang forth from it, or were fostered within its mantles, than can the biography of a human being be complete with a mere sketch of his physical frame and bodily growth. The physical and biological evolutions are well recognized as essential parts of earth history. Although the mental evolutions have emerged gradually with the biological evolutions, and have run more or less nearly parallel with them—have, indeed, been ...
— College Teaching - Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College • Paul Klapper
... before the fire of our mind and of our intellect is quenched. But mark me—soon after comes her cruel sister with her urn, and sprinkles cold dew on our hopes and on our loves, our memory, our recollections, and our feelings, and shows us that they cannot survive the decay of our bodily powers." ...
— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott
... equal weight of sugar or starch; but this apparent advantage is more than counterbalanced by the fact that fats are much more difficult of digestion than are the other carbonaceous elements, and if relied upon to furnish adequate material for bodily heat, would be productive of much mischief in overtaxing and producing disease of the digestive organs. The fact that nature has made a much more ample provision of starch and sugars than of fats in man's natural diet, would seem ...
— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg


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