Definition of Fleshly
1. Adjective. Marked by the appetites and passions of the body. "Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice"
Similar to: Physical
Derivative terms: Animality, Carnality, Carnalize, Sensuality, Sensualness
Definition of Fleshly
1. a. Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal.
2. adv. In a fleshly manner; carnally; lasciviously.
Definition of Fleshly
1. Adjective. corporeal or bodily ¹
2. Adjective. sensual ¹
3. Adjective. worldly ¹
4. Adverb. (obsolete) Carnally; sexually. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fleshly
1. pertaining to the body [adj -LIER, -LIEST]
Medical Definition of Fleshly
1. 1. Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal. "Fleshly bondage." 2. Animal; notvegetable. 3. Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine. "Fleshly wisdom." "Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm And fragile arms." (Milton) 4. Carnal; wordly; lascivious. "Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul." (1 Pet. Ii. 11) Origin: AS. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fleshly
Literary usage of Fleshly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"You know what I mean : all carnal and fleshly content. CHR. Thank God you have
escaped her: the abhorred of the Lord shall fall into her ditch. (Prov. xxii. ..."
2. The Works of John Jewel by John Jewel, John Ayre (1845)
"The hundred y sort is Christ laid present upon the table ; but not in M.
Harding's gross and fleshly manner. And therefore St Augustine saith in like sense ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1871)
"THE fleshly SCHOOL OF ... yet a very similar effect is produced on the unprejudiced
mind when the "walking gentlemen " of the fleshly school of poetry, ..."
4. The Time Is at Handby Charles Taze Russell by Charles Taze Russell (2000)
"And just as surely, also, as a remnant of fleshly Israel was saved from the
blindness and ... These (the remnant selected from fleshly Israel at its fall, ..."
5. Dialogues on Universal Salvation: And Topics Connected Therewith by David Thom (1838)
"I know farther that, while they are in flesh, he gives to his people, and to his
people alone, to possess, over and above that fleshly connection with him ..."
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