bodily Definition
bodi·ly (bäd′ə lē)
adverb
- in person; in the flesh to be bodily present
- as a single body; in entirety
- as a single group; as one unit
bodily Synonyms
bodily
modif.
Concerning the body
corporeal, corporal, physical, carnal, fleshly, somatic, incarnate, mortal, gross, hylic, solid, unspiritual, worldly, tangible, material, substantial, human, animal, natural, constitutional, organic; see also biological, physical 1, real 2.As a whole
entirely, totally, absolutely; see completely.
bodily refers to the human body as distinct from the mind or spirit bodily ills; physical, while often interchangeable with bodily, suggests somewhat less directly the anatomy and physiology of the body physical exercise; corporeal refers to the material substance of the body and is opposed to spiritualhis corporeal remains; corporal refers to the effect of something upon the body corporal punishment; somatic is a scientific word and refers to the body as distinct from the psyche, with no philosophic or poetic overtones the somatic differences between individuals
bodily Usage Examples
Preposition: from
- dead: Three days later, the tomb was empty and Jesus ' followers were claiming they'd seen him risen bodily from the dead.
- death: He really wants to rub home to the Corinthians that Jesus rose bodily from death.
- tomb: Jesus was raised bodily from that dark tomb, never to die again.
Modifying Another Word
- not: Were they actual bodily things, or things but not bodily things, or perhaps they didn't really exist independently at all?
- only: Not only bodily elements arise and fall away, also what we call mind arises and falls away, each moment.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- lift: He scarcely stirred otherwise, but he lifted the chair bodily into the air with one hand and hurled it at Northover's head.
- remove: Control of established plants is by removing the docks bodily after plowing or during bare or bastard fallowing.
Modifies a noun
- harm: Rosie was sent to prison for grievous bodily harm for a ten year sentence.
- resurrection: For the pagans, the idea of bodily resurrection was simply a non starter.
- fluid: Perhaps girls take your precious bodily fluids or something.
- sensation: I did my best to ignore the fact that my bodily sensations were no longer agreeable.
- intimation: When we gesticulate in order to convey our intentions, kusala citta or akusala citta produces the rupa which is bodily intimation.
- injury: For bodily injury to your needs the sale closes a monthly mortgage.
Used with adjective complement
- lift: In an instant, he felt himself lifted bodily away from the wall.
- rise: He really wants to rub home to the Corinthians that Jesus rose bodily from death.
- raise: Jesus was raised bodily from that dark tomb, never to die again.
- ascend: Is it the case that Mary was a perpetual Virgin, was conceived immaculately, and ascended bodily into Heaven?
- throw: She was thrown bodily into the air and landed on her back against the buoyancy tube in the bows of the boat.
- go: So there is a tradition in the Bible of special people, going bodily from earth to heaven.
Browse dictionary entries near bodily
- ‹ bodiless
- ‹ -bodied
- ‹ bodice-ripper
- ‹ bodice
- ‹ bodhran
- ‹ bodhisattva
- ‹ Bodensee
- ‹ Bodenheim, Maxwell
- ‹ bodega
- ‹ bode
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