▪ I. bodily, a.
(ˈbɒdɪlɪ)
Also 3–5 bodili, 4 bodi-, bodylich(e, 4–6 bodely, 4 bodeli, 6 bodelie, bodyly(e, 7 bodilie.
[f. body n. + -ly1.]
† 1. Of the nature of body, corporeal, material, physical; as opposed to spiritual. Obs.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 428 Wit angel þat es gastli, And with man þat es bodili. a 1340 Hampole Pr. Consc. 3129 Som clerkes, þat spekes of purgatory Says þat þe fire þare is bodily, And noght gastly als þe saule es. c 1449 Pecock Repr. ii. xvi. 243 The bodili heuen and hise seid bodili parties. 1528 More Heresyes i. Wks. 152/2 That any bodily thyng should drawe an other without touching. 1633 Earl of Manchester Al Mondo 178 There are three bodily Inhabitants already gone to heaven. 1674 N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 198 The World..that bulk of bodily beings we see. |
2. Of or belonging to the body or physical nature of man. bodily fear: alarm for one's personal safety, apprehension of physical harm.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 12929 (Gött.) Bodili fode. c 1325 E.E. Allit. P. A. 477 With bodyly bale hym blysse to byye. c 1380 Wyclif De Pseudo-Freris Wks. (1880) 305 Bodiliche chastite is ofte broken. 1454 E.E. Wills (1882) 132 Beyng in good bodely helth. 1494 Fabyan vi. clxxxi. 179 The bysshop..myght departe thens without bodely harme. 1651 Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxvii. 155 The fear..of corporeall hurt, which we call Bodily Fear. 1711 Budgell Spect. No. 161 ¶5 Fatigues of bodily Labour. 1785 Reid Int. Powers 276 My memory is not limited by any bodily organ. 1837 Dickens Pickw. xl, ‘I'm in bodily fear.’ 1838 ― Nich. Nick. xxi, Bodily illness is more easy to bear than mental. |
† b. Real; actual; physically carried out. Obs.
| 1607 Shakes. Cor. i. ii. 5 What euer [counsels] haue bin thought one in this State That could be brought to bodily act, ere Rome Had circumuention. |
† c. bodily oath: = corporal oath. Perhaps, originally, an oath taken on the consecrated host or ‘body’ of Christ; but used also of oaths taken with a ‘bodily touch’ of other sacred things. Obs.
| c 1470 Henry Wallace iv. 190 The bodelye ayth thai maid him with gud will. 1639 Council Rec. in Inverness Courier (1884) 25 Oct. 3/4 The said A. B. has givine his great and bodielie aith. |
† 3. Solid; of or pertaining to a solid. Obs.
| 1557 Recorde Whetst. C iij b, Thereof be thei named bodily nombers, or sound nombers. The leaste of them all is commonly called a Cube. 1570 Billingsley Euclid xi. Introd. 312 In these bookes following he entreateth of..bodely figures: as of Cubes. 1601 Holland Pliny I, 20 That they [clouds] be thicke, grosse, and of a bodily consistence. |
Hence † ˈbodiliˌhede, ˈbodiliˌness, corporeality; ˈbodily-wise adv., corporeally, in the body.
| c 1440 Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. xxxiii, The kynde of god that is..ferrest fro bodily hede. 1587 Golding De Mornay xiv. 205 It behoueth the same [Soule] to be altogether bodylesse it selfe: for had it any bodylinesse at all, it could not receiue any body into it. 1869 Lynch Church & St. 24 We cannot be in the country and in the town at the same time bodily-wise. |
▪ II. bodily, adv.
(ˈbɒdɪlɪ)
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
† 1. In the manner of, or with regard to, the body; corporeally (often = ‘unspiritually’). Obs.
| c 1370 Lay-Folks Mass-Bk. App. iv. 630 God þat diȝed vppon þe tre, þat þe prest receyuede bodile. 1394 P. Pl. Crede 619 All þo blissed beþ þat bodyliche hungreþ. c 1440 Lonelich Grail (Roxb.) I. 450 Of man that in this world lyveth bodily. 1579 Fulke Heskin's Parl. 323 It fedde the faithfull, not onely bodily, but also spiritually. 1685 Baxter Paraph. N.T. Mark vi. 53 That we could as bodily believe and trust him for our..Souls. |
2. In or with the body; in the flesh; in person.
| c 1440 Three Kings (1885) 26 Þe tyme was to-come þat he schulde þer appere bodelich. 1578 Thynne Let. in Animadv. Introd. (1865) 59 Since I ame..barred bodely to approche your presence. 1640 Sir E. Dering Prop. Sacr. (1644) 45 Christ..bodily present. 1803 Southey Wks. VI. 173 This is our father Francisco, Among us bodily. |
3. transf. With the whole body or bulk, ‘body and all’; all together, in one mass, as a whole.
| 1793 Smeaton Edystone L. §322 The seas came in bodily over the Barbican wall. 1850 Mrs. Browning Poems II. 4 As if that, over brake and lea, Bodily the wind did carry The great altar of St. Mary. 1877 A. B. Edwards Up Nile xviii. 520 A full-length portrait of Seti I., cut out bodily from the walls of his sepulchre. |