bodily
Speech parts
1. bodily - Adjective
2. bodily - Adverb
4. bodily - Adjective Satellite
5. Bodily - Proper noun
Meaning
Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter.
Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind.
Real; actual; put in execution.
Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body.
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."
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Examples
When men search for God with their bodily eyes they find Him nowhere, for He is invisible. But for those who ponder in the Spirit He is present everywhere. He is in all, yet beyond all.
A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer.
Christ, invisible to the bodily eye, manifests Himself on earth clearly through His Church ... The Church is the Body of Christ both because its parts are united to Christ through His divine mysteries and because through her Christ works in the world.
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought.... life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.
His illness is more mental than bodily.