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bodied, ppl. a.|ˈbɒdɪd|
[f. body n. + -ed.]
1. Having a body or trunk; usually with an adjective, forming a parasynthetic comb., as big-bodied, able-bodied, etc.
a1547Surrey æneid iv. 582 Like to the aged boysteous bodied oke. 1590Shakes. Com. Err. iv. ii. 20 He is deformed..Ill-fac'd, worse bodied, shapelesse euery where. 1625Purchas Pilgrims ii. 1421 The women in Camienitz goe with their Coates close bodied. 1662Fuller Worthies (1840) II. 339 He [unicorn] is commonly pictured, bodied like a buck. 1729T. Cooke Tales, Propos. etc. 121 Light body'd Cranes. 1875Blackmore C. Vaughan xv. 49 Of moderate stature, gauntly bodied, and loosely built.
b. Having substance, strength, consistency, etc.
1611Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. x. (1614) 19/1 Springs..gathering stil strength with more branches, lastly grow bodyed able to beare ships into the land. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) I. 372 The most firm, the best bodied, and lastingest wine. 1666Evelyn Diary (1827) II. 260 Drebbell, inventor of y⊇ boedied scarlet.
2. Endowed with material form or being; made corporeal or material; embodied.
1646J. Hall Poems 39 Ne're a body'd nothing shall perceive How we unite, how we together cleave. 1840Carlyle Heroes iii. 140 Bodied or bodiless, it is the one fact important for all men:—but to Dante, in that age, it was bodied in fixed certainty of scientific shape. 1855Browning One Word More, in Men & Women ii. 240 Like the bodied heaven in clearness Shone the stone. |