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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BOD'ILY, a. 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.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of or relating to or belonging to the body; "a bodily organ"; "bodily functions"
2: 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" [syn: bodily, corporal, corporeal, somatic]
3: having or relating to a physical material body; "bodily existence" adv
1: in bodily form; "he was translated bodily to heaven"

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Date: 14th century 1. having a body ; physical 2. of or relating to the body <bodily comfort> <bodily organs> II. adverb Date: 14th century 1. in the flesh 2. as a whole ; altogether

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & adv. --adj. of or concerning the body. --adv. 1 with the whole bulk; as a whole (threw them bodily). 2 in the body; as a person.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bodily 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bodily 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Your bodily needs and functions are the needs and functions of your body. There's more to eating than just bodily needs. ADJ: ADJ n see also grievous bodily harm 2. You use bodily to indicate that an action involves the whole of someone's body. I was hurled bodily to the deck. ADV: ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. 1. Of the body. 2. Corporeal, physical. II. ad. 1. Corporeally. 2. Entirely (as respects the body or mass), completely, wholly, altogether.

Moby Thesaurus

Adamic, Circean, across the board, all, all put together, altogether, animal, animalistic, as a body, as a whole, at large, atavistic, beastlike, beastly, bestial, born, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal, carnal-minded, coarse, coeval, collectively, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, corporal, corporately, corporeal, earthly, earthy, en bloc, en masse, entirely, fallen, fleshly, genetic, gross, hereditary, hylic, in a body, in all, in all respects, in bulk, in its entirety, in person, in propria persona, in the aggregate, in the blood, in the flesh, in the gross, in the lump, in the mass, in toto, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, lapsed, material, materialistic, materiate, native, native to, natural, natural to, nonspiritual, on all counts, organic, orgiastic, personally, physical, postlapsarian, primal, secular, sensual, somatic, substantial, swinish, temperamental, temporal, totally, tout ensemble, unspiritual, wholly, worldly