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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fleshly \Flesh"ly\ (fl[e^]sh"l[y^]), adjective [AS. fl[=ae]scl[imac]c.]
1. Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal. ''Fleshly bondage.'' --Denham.
2. Animal; not vegetable. --Dryden.
3. Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine. ''Fleshly wisdom.'' --2 Cor. i. 12.
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fleshly \Flesh"ly\, adverb In a fleshly manner; carnally; lasciviously. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fleshly
adjective: of the appetites and passions of the body; "animal instincts"; "carnal knowledge"; "fleshly desire"; "a sensual delight in eating"; "music is the only sensual pleasure without vice" [syn: {animal(a)}, {carnal}, {sensual}] [also: {fleshliest}, {fleshlier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
135 Moby Thesaurus words for "fleshly": Adamic, Adamite, Adamitic, Circean, amorous, animal, animalistic, anthropocentric, anthropological, aphrodisiomaniacal, backsliding, bawdy, beastlike, beastly, bestial, bodily, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal, carnal-minded, clitoromaniacal, coarse, concupiscent, corporal, corporeal, dirty, earthly, earthy, epicurean, erogenic, erogenous, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotogenic, erotomaniacal, erring, fallen, finite, frail, gamic, goatish, gross, gynecomaniacal, heterosexual, hominal, homocentric, horny, hot, human, humanistic, hylic, hysteromaniacal, impure, infirm, ithyphallic, lapsed, lascivious, lay, lecherous, lewd, libidinal, libidinous, lickerish, lubricious, lustful, luxurious, man-centered, material, materialistic, materiate, mortal, mundane, nonsacred, nonspiritual, nuptial, nymphomaniacal, obscene, of easy virtue, only human, orgiastic, oversexed, peccable, physical, postlapsarian, potent, priapic, procreative, prodigal, profane, prurient, randy, recidivist, recidivistic, reprobate, salacious, satyric, secular, sensual, sensuous, sex, sexed, sexlike, sexual, sexy, somatic, straight, substantial, swinish, sybaritic, tellurian, temporal, unangelic, unblessed, unchaste, unclean, undersexed, ungodly, ungood, unhallowed, unholy, unregenerate, unrighteous, unsacred, unsaintly, unsanctified, unspiritual, unvirtuous, venereal, virtueless, voluptuous, wanton, wayward, weak, worldly
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