Word Meanings - BODILY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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."

Additional info about word: BODILY

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. Be brought to bodily act. Shak. Bodily fear, apprehension of physical injury. Syn. -- See Corporal.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BODILY)

• Corporal
• Bodily
• fleshly
• physical
• material
• corporeal

Related words: (words related to BODILY)

• CORPOREALITY
  The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.
• PHYSICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to nature ; in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or relating to natural or material things, or to the bodily structure, as opposed to things mental, moral, spiritual, or imaginary; material; natural; as, armies and
• MATERIALNESS
  The state of being material.
• CORPORALITY
  1. The state of being or having a body; bodily existence; corporeality; -- opposed to spirituality. Dr. H. More. 2. A confraternity; a guild. Milton.
• MATERIALISTIC; MATERIALISTICAL
  Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism. But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics. C. Kingsley.
• FLESHLY
  1. Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal. "Fleshly bondage." Denham. 2. Animal; not Dryden. 3. Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine. "Fleshly wisdom." 2 Cor. i. 12. Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm And fragile arms. Milton.
• PHYSICALLY
  In a physical manner; according to the laws of nature or physics; by physical force; not morally. I am not now treating physically of light or colors. Locke. 2. According to the rules of medicine. He that lives physically must live miserably.
• CORPORALLY
  In or with the body; bodily; as, to be corporally present. Sharp.
• CORPORALSHIP
  A corporal's office.
• CORPOREALNESS
  Corporeality; corporeity.
• CORPORAL
  A noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. In the United States army he is the lowest noncomissioned officer in a company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels. Corporal's guard, a detachment such as would be in charge of a corporal
• CORPOREALIST
  One who denies the reality of spiritual existences; a materialist. Some corporealists pretended . . . to make a world without a God. Bp. Berkeley.
• CORPOREALLY
  In the body; in a bodily form or manner.
• MATERIALISM
  1. The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets. The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus. Buckminster. 2. The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to
• MATERIALIZATION
  The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.
• MATERIALIST
  1. One who denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter. 2. One who holds to the existence of matter, as distinguished from the
• MATERIALITY
  1. The quality or state of being material; material existence; corporeity. 2. Importance; as, the materiality of facts.
• CORPOREALISM
  Materialism. Cudworth.
• BODILY
  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."
• MATERIALLY
  1. In the state of matter. I do not mean that anything is separable from a body by fire that was not materially preëxistent in it. Boyle. 2. In its essence; substantially. An ill intention is certainly sufficient to spoil . . . an act in itself
• HYPERPHYSICAL
  Above or transcending physical laws; supernatural. Those who do not fly to some hyperphysical hypothesis. Sir W. Hamilton.
• TRICORPORAL; TRICORPORATE
  Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head, as a lion.
• CATAPHYSICAL
  Unnatural; contrary to nature. Some artists . . . have given to Sir Walter Scott a pile of forehead which is unpleassing and cataphysical. De Quincey.
• IMMATERIALIST
  One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.
• BICORPORAL
  Having two bodies.
• METAPHYSICALLY
  In the manner of metaphysical science, or of a metaphysician. South.
• IMMATERIAL
  1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker. 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does
• OMNICORPOREAL
  Comprehending or including all bodies; embracing all substance. Cudworth.
• INCORPORAL
  Immaterial; incorporeal; spiritual. Sir W. Raleigh.
• DEMATERIALIZE
  To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics. Dematerializing matter by stripping if of everything which . . . has distinguished matter. Milman.
• IMMATERIALLY
  1. In an immaterial manner; without matter or corporeal substance. 2. In an unimportant manner or degree.
• COMMATERIAL
  Consisting of the same material. Bacon.