bodily Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective of or relating to or belonging to the body
    • a bodily organ
    • bodily functions
  2. adjective satellite affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit
    corporal; somatic; corporeal.
    • bodily needs
    • a corporal defect
    • corporeal suffering
    • a somatic symptom or somatic illness
  3. adjective satellite having or relating to a physical material body
    • bodily existence
  4. adverb in bodily form
    • he was translated bodily to heaven

WordNet

Bod"i*ly adjective
Definitions
  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." L'Estrange.
  3. Real; actual; put in execution. Obs.
    Be brought to bodily act. Shak.
    Syn. -- See Corporal.
Bod"i*ly adverb
Definitions
  1. Corporeally; in bodily form; united with a body or matter; in the body.
    For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Col. ii. 9
  2. In respect to, or so as to affect, the entire body or mass; entirely; all at once; completely; as, to carry away bodily. "Leapt bodily below." Lowell.

Webster 1913