5 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

bodied

adjective

1: having a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination; "strong-bodied"; "big-bodied" [ant: {unbodied}]

2: possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "'corporate' is an archaic term" [syn: {corporal}, {corporate}, {embodied}, {incarnate}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

body

noun

1: the entire physical structure of an organism (especially an animal or human being); "he felt as if his whole body were on fire" [syn: {organic structure}, {physical structure}]

2: body of a dead animal or person; "they found the body in the lake" [syn: {dead body}]

3: a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"

4: the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies" [syn: {torso}, {trunk}]

5: an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects; "heavenly body"

6: a collection of particulars considered as a system; "a body of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents"

7: the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted"

8: the property of holding together and retaining its shape; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake" [syn: {consistency}, {consistence}]

9: the central message of a communication; "the body of the message was short"

verb: invest with or as with a body; give body to [syn: {personify}] [also: {bodied}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

bodied See {body}

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Bodied \Bod"ied\, adjective Having a body; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied.

A doe . . . not altogether so fat, but very good flesh and good bodied. --Hakluyt.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Body \Bod"y\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Bodied} (?); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bodying}.] To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody.

{To body forth}, to give from or shape to mentally.

Imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown. --Shak.
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