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单词 bodily
释义 bodi·ly
I. \ˈbädəlē, -də̇lē, -li\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from body + -ly
1. : having a body or a material form : physical, corporeal
 < a ghostlike figure with bodily form >
2.
 a. : of or relating to the body
  < bodily comfort >
 b. : concerning the body
  < bodily fear >
3. obsolete : actual, realized
Synonyms:
 physical, corporeal, corporal, somatic: these words agree in referring to the human body and differ so little that they are often interchangeable. bodily contrasts with mental or spiritual
  < 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. adverb
Etymology: Middle English, from bodily, adjective
1. : in the body : in the flesh : in person
 < the Savior walking bodily among men >
2. : as a body : as a whole : altogether, entirely
 < the first of 160 homes to be moved bodily from this village — New York Times >
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