单词 | bodily |
释义 | bodi·ly I. 1. < a ghostlike figure with bodily form > 2. a. < bodily comfort > b. < bodily fear > 3. obsolete Synonyms: < bodily illness is more easy to bear than mental — Charles Dickens > < if from any bodily or mental defect the eldest son is disqualified for ruling — J.G.Frazer > physical, in this sense, may be somewhat milder and less explicit than bodily < even if he dreads no physical betrayal, he suffers from terror and morbid sensitiveness at every hint of mental estrangement — George Santayana > < her emotional breakdown had probably more to do with physical exhaustion than with any eloquence of his — A.T.Quiller-Couch > corporeal stresses substance and may contrast either with spiritual or with immaterial < the spiritual life commences where the corporeal existence terminates — J.G.Frazer > < we saw … the woman, with a corporeal body as real at that moment as our own, pass in through the interstice — Bram Stoker > corporal, now less common in these uses than the others, is likely to refer to things which affect the body unpleasantly < corporal punishment > In some contexts as “corporal works of mercy” it contrasts with spiritual. somatic, meaning of or relating to the body, is almost entirely scientific in suggestion < language is produced through the action of definite body parts and is thus a somatic function — Psychoanalytic Review > II. 1. < the Savior walking bodily among men > 2. < the first of 160 homes to be moved bodily from this village — New York Times > |
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