[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, Heskins’ Parl., 323. It fedde the faithfull, not onely bodily, but also spiritually.
1685. Baxter, Paraphr. 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, Lett., 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.
