Definition of Bodied

1. Adjective. Having a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination. "Big-bodied"


2. Adjective. Possessing or existing in bodily form. "`corporate' is an archaic term"
Exact synonyms: Corporal, Corporate, Embodied, Incarnate
Similar to: Corporeal, Material

Definition of Bodied

1. a. Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied.

Definition of Bodied

1. Adjective. (''in combination'') Having a specified form of body ¹

2. Adjective. Having a bodily form; corporeal or incarnate ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bodied

1. body [v] - See also: body

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bodied

bodhicitta
bodhisattva
bodhisattva vows
bodhisattvas
bodhran
bodhrans
bodian
bodice
bodice-ripper
bodice-rippers
bodice rippers
bodiced
bodices
bodie
bodied (current term)
bodies
bodies of work
bodig
bodikin
bodikins
bodiless
bodilessness
bodiliness
bodily
bodily-fluid
bodily cavity
bodily fluids

Literary usage of Bodied

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

1. The English Poor Law System, Past and Present by Paul Felix Aschrott (1902)
"In the first place there is no agreement as to what persons are to be reckoned as able-bodied.2 In some unions the term "able-bodied" is restricted to those ..."

2. English Poor Law Policy by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1910)
"We regard the wise treatment of all such adult able-bodied persons as have to be ... There is an additional reason for not thrusting the able-bodied ..."

3. A History of the English Poor Law in Connection with the State of the by George Nicholls (1900)
"We thought," he says, " that we should want workhouse room for 500 able-bodied, and for 1000 of the other classes; it turns out that we have no able-bodied ..."

4. Ruling Cases by Irving Browne, Leonard Augustus Jones, James Tower Keen, John Melville Gould (1901)
"IN England, an able-bodied man, who can, if he chooses, obtain employment which will enable him to maintain himself and his family, but refuses to accept ..."

5. Sophisms of Free-trade and Popular Political Economy Examined by John Barnard Byles (1912)
"The public must, and do maintain the able-bodied pauper, but refuse to employ him actively and productively. The public is in the situation of a man who ..."

6. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
"... the able-bodied hands having been drawn out for other purposes. Now for the result of a day's picking, from sun-up until sun-down, by twenty-two hands, ..."

7. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"... but attaining their greatest size and variability of form in the latter. Thus, in North America, all of the thick-bodied poisonous snakes are "Pit ..."

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