ppl. a. [f. BODY + -ED.]

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  1.  Having a body or trunk; usually with an adjective, forming a parasynthetic comb., as big-bodied, ABLE-BODIED, etc.

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a. 1547.  Surrey, Æneid, IV. 582. Like to the aged boysteous bodied oke.

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1590.  Shaks., Com. Err., IV. ii. 20. He is deformed … Ill-fac’d, worse bodied, shapelesse euery where.

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1625.  Purchas, Pilgrims, II. 1421. The women in Camienitz goe with their Coates close bodied.

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1662.  Fuller, Worthies (1840), II. 339. He [unicorn] is commonly pictured, bodied like a buck.

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1729.  T. Cooke, Tales, Propos, etc. 121. Light body’d Cranes.

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1875.  Blackmore, C. Vaughan, xv. 49. Of moderate stature, gauntly bodied, and loosely built.

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  b.  Having substance, strength, consistency, etc.

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1611.  Speed, Theat. Gt. Brit., x. (1614), 19/1. Springs … gathering stil strength with more branches, lastly grow bodyed able to beare ships into the land.

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c. 1645.  Howell, Lett. (1650), I. 372. The most firm, the best bodied, and lastingest wine.

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1666.  Evelyn, Diary (1827), II. 260. Drebbell, inventor of ye boedied scarlet.

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  2.  Endowed with material form or being; made corporeal or material; embodied.

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1646.  J. Hall, Poems, 39. Ne’re a body’d nothing shall perceive How we unite, how we together cleave.

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1840.  Carlyle, Heroes, iii. 140. Bodied or bodiless, it is the one fact important for all men:—but to Dante, in that age, it was bodied in fixed certainty of scientific shape.

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1855.  Browning, One Word More, in Men & Wom., II. 240. Like the bodied heaven in clearness Shone the stone.

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