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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bodily
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bodily functions (=eating, breathing, going to the toilet etc)
▪ The nervous system regulates our bodily functions.
grievous bodily harm
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
experience
▪ Yet our narratives, or ways of thinking, are grounded in our bodily experiences in nature and society.
fluid
▪ The disease has no cure and is spread through bodily fluids.
form
▪ Their sensory perception as well as their motor responses - their behaviour - are thus totally consonant with their bodily form and function.
▪ It comes along with taking birth into a particular bodily form.
▪ You only recognize it when it rises in bodily form, like the Daurog itself.
▪ Johnny Boy, according to some reports, was seething resentment in bodily form.
▪ Of course, our bodily forms and somewhat disorganized working systems were in contradiction to their understanding of the correct codes of policing.
▪ This usually means effects on the processes of embryonic development and hence on bodily form and behaviour.
function
▪ Bob's humour was based on everything from swearing to drug-taking and bodily functions.
▪ Any thoughts I had of eating, drinking or relieving bodily functions were forgotten.
▪ Most people consider elimination to be a very private bodily function and therefore find it an embarrassing subject to discuss with hospital staff.
▪ The intimate aspects of bodily function are more easily expressed with a person of the same gender.
▪ The one thing I didn't have to worry about was losing control of my bodily functions.
▪ It was the fact of having bodily functions.
▪ The subset containing fabliaux with lavatory humour, tales concerning basic bodily functions of excretion or flatulence, are fewer in number.
▪ If the neurons control automatic bodily functions, heart rate and breathing are impaired.
harm
▪ A 19 year old female student from Bath University was charged by Essex police with unlawful imprisonment and causing actual bodily harm.
▪ He had threatened to do bodily harm to all of us.
▪ The accused, however, remains charged with criminal negligence causing bodily harm and the trial continues.
▪ Actual bodily harm need not be serious harm and it has been held to include a hysterical and nervous condition.
▪ Garrington admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm on Ian Dixon and he was fined £50.
▪ Liddle is also charged with grievous bodily harm.
▪ Makka, who admitted causing Susan grievous bodily harm, was jailed for five years.
▪ Grievous bodily harm, about twenty-five years ago.
injury
▪ Now he is being tried for kidnapping, wrongful imprisonment and bodily injury.
process
▪ Patriarchal religion is built on many millennia of repressed fear of the power of female bodily processes.
▪ Even under the weight of negative male definitions of female bodily processes, there remain hints of its positive aspects for women.
sensation
▪ We are justified in using it for a quality of material things only if the quality is like the bodily sensation.
▪ I shall now try to make explicit these other lines of thought about the location of bodily sensations.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bodily functions
bodily needs
▪ Albert agreed to turn over samples of his hair and bodily fluids to the court.
▪ Parretti had a lengthy criminal record that included fraud and conspiracy to commit bodily harm.
▪ the threat of death or serious bodily harm
▪ The villagers have to go down to the lake to perform most of their bodily functions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Constrictions in the face and various bodily appendages.
▪ If the neurons control automatic bodily functions, heart rate and breathing are impaired.
▪ It is a genuine attack by the self upon the body, by which mental anguish is swapped for bodily pain.
▪ Our pain lies in our bodily selves, Larry, not in our souls.
▪ Pratt denies assault causing actual bodily harm.
▪ The conduct may be either causing a wound or causing grievous bodily harm.
▪ Their sensory perception as well as their motor responses - their behaviour - are thus totally consonant with their bodily form and function.
II.adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ They lifted the child bodily aboard.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And if the earth, as well as spinning, moves bodily around the sun, why doesn't it leave the moon behind?
▪ I seem to have to transplant myself bodily.
▪ Then he bodily picked up Orlando Sentinel reporter Donna Blanton and twirled her around on his hip.
▪ Then, with a desperate effort threw himself bodily away.
▪ When men and women joined bodily, they rid them-selves of their bodies.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bodily

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.

Bodily

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bodily

c.1300, "pertaining to the body;" also opposed to "spiritual;" from body + -ly (1). As an adverb (with -ly (2)) from late 14c.

Wiktionary
bodily

a. 1 Of, relating to, or concerning the body. 2 Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal. 3 real; actual; put into execution. adv. In or by the body; physically.

WordNet
bodily

adv. in bodily form; "he was translated bodily to heaven"

bodily
  1. adj. of or relating to or belonging to the body; "a bodily organ"; "bodily functions"; "carnal remains" [syn: carnal]

  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: corporal, corporeal, somatic]

  3. having or relating to a physical material body; "bodily existence"

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "bodily".

A great many expressions of kindred tenor might easily be adduced, leaving it hardly possible to doubt as indeed we are not aware that any one does doubt that many of the Jews literally held that sin was the sole cause of bodily dissolution.

That ordinary alimentation, which includes the process of digestion, the subsequent vital changes involved in the conversion of food into blood, and its final transformation into tissue, causes mental languor and dullness, as well as bodily exhaustion, is attested by universal experience.

The RUVIS showed a few spots of bodily fluids on the spread and Catherine bagged the spread, too.

Christ is not less enduring than this bodily mark, since we see that not even apostates are deprived of Baptism, since when they repent and return they are not baptized anew.

It is not on account of bodily weakness that the baptized is raised from the sacred font by the godparent, but on account of spiritual weakness, as stated above.

Existents and the principles of the Existents, whether they have entailed an infinite or a finite number, bodily or bodiless, or even supposed the Composite to be the Authentic Existent, may well be considered separately with the help of the criticisms made by the ancients upon them.

The various speculations on the subject of the Existents and the principles of the Existents, whether they have entailed an infinite or a finite number, bodily or bodiless, or even supposed the Composite to be the Authentic Existent, may well be considered separately with the help of the criticisms made by the ancients upon them.

Samson, but Samson took one look at Buffo, big as a house and already half seas over, shepherding his flock into the circus with his customary deranged majesty and the air of one about to commit grievous bodily harm.

Fortunately, where Camber was concerned, God took that possibility out of their hands, by bodily assuming him into heaven.

You would have learned after your bodily death, but then you will no longer be Chuan the man.

After my first night under the stars--wondrous night of wakefulness and hopeful music, throughout which I lay entranced at the foot of a wooded hill and was never for a moment uncompanioned by nightingale, cicala and firefly--I began to suffer from footsoreness, a bodily affliction against which romance, that certain salve for the maladies of the soul, is no remedy, or very little.

Its rotundity was first lost, it assumed the semblance of a featureless disk of pallid light, which swiftly widened till it obscured all else, then seemed to advance upon and envelope her bodily, so that she became spiritually a part of it, an atom of identity engulfed in a limpid world of glareless light, light that had had no rays and issued from no source but was circumambient and universal.

If you were to ask me to shew you the scar, I could not satisfy you, for you must understand that the body I had at that time does not exist any longer, and in my present bodily envelope I am only twenty-three years old.

To be consistent with our professions as Masons, to retain the dignity of our nature, the consciousness of our own honor, the spirit of the high chivalry that is our boast, we must disdain the evils that are only material and bodily, and therefore can be no bigger than a blow or a cozenage, than a wound or a dream.

I should not, however, say this unless led to do so by regard to the interests of theories which I believe to be as nearly important as any theories can be which do not directly involve money or bodily convenience.