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Definition of Physically

1. Adverb. In accord with physical laws. "It is physically impossible"

Definition of Physically

1. adv. In a physical manner; according to the laws of nature or physics; by physical force; not morally.

Definition of Physically

1. Adverb. In a physical manner. ¹

2. Adverb. According to the laws of physics. ¹

3. Adverb. Using physical force. ¹

4. Adverb. (obsolete) According to the rules of medicine. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Physically

1. [adv]

Medical Definition of Physically

1. In a physical manner; according to the laws of nature or physics; by physical force; not morally. "I am not now treating physically of light or colours." (Locke) 2. According to the rules of medicine. "He that lives physically must live miserably." (Cheyne) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Physically

Literary usage of Physically

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Even among the Moros their efforts were successful and in one year (1892) blance, mentally, morally, and physically, between individuals of the Visayas, ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"There is no suggestion that at that time Pope was either mentally or physically unable to complete the brief of evidence, and, If able to do this, ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Even among the Moros their efforts were successful and in one year (1892) blance. mentally, morally, and physically, between individuals of the Visayas, ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Even among the Moros their efforts were successful and in one year (1892) blanco, mentally, morally, and physically, between individuals of the Visayas, ..."

5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"that during ail this lime he was mentally and physically incapable of attending to his business, or knowing of and performing his obliga- ; ¡ons, ..."

6. War's Aftermath: A Preliminary Study of the Eugenics of War as Illustrated by David Starr Jordan, Harvey Ernest Jordan (1914)
"War took only the physically fit; the physically unfit remained behind This ... Another suggests that there should be added "also the physically unfit, ..."

7. The Metaphysics of the School by Thomas Harper (1884)
"For, if the existence of a vacuum is even only physically impossible; any debating about the possible action of an Efficient Cause across a vacuum would be ..."

8. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1885)
"Begbie was well fitted, physically, morally, and intellectually, for tlie work of his profession, and was, in the highest sense of the word, ..."

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