Dictionary entry

Bodily

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Be brought to bodily act.

Shak.

Bodily fear, apprehension of physical injury.

Syn. — See Corporal.