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Bodily

1. Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter. You are a mere spirit, and have no knowledge of the bodily part of us. (Tatler)

2. Of or pertaining to the body, in distinction from the mind. Bodily defects.

3. Real; actual; put in execution. Be brought to bodily act. (Shak) bodily fear, apprehension of physical injury.

Synonym: see Corporal.