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Physical

adjective

Involving the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit. "Physical suffering" , "Was sloppy about everything but her physical appearance"

Relating to the sciences dealing with matter and energy; especially physics. "Physical laws"

Having substance or material existence; perceptible to the senses. "Surrounded by tangible objects"

According with material things or natural laws (other than those peculiar to living matter).

Characterized by energetic bodily activity.

Impelled by physical force especially against resistance. Synonyms: forcible, strong-arm. "A real cop would get physical" , "Strong-arm tactics"

Concerned with material things. "The physical characteristics of the earth" , "The physical size of a computer"

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"Physical" Quotes from Famous Books

... Garrick died in January of 1779, and Beauclerk in March, 1780. Johnson himself seems to have shown few symptoms of increasing age; but a change was approaching, and the last years of his life were destined to be clouded, not merely by physical weakness, but by a change of circumstances which had great influence ...

— Samuel Johnson • Leslie Stephen

... that wonderful afternoon within the fort. In spite of himself the impression was fading; he could not understand that feeling of mad panic terror that drove him through the thicket and down the steep hillside; yet, he had experienced so clearly the physical shame and reluctance of the flesh; he recollected that for a few seconds after his awakening the sight of his own body had made him shudder and writhe as if it had suffered some profoundest degradation. He saw before ...

— The Hill of Dreams • Arthur Machen

... your lady's illness was reasonable, and not disproportionate to the appearance of the disorder. I hope your physical friend's conjecture is now verified, and all fear of a consumption at an end: a little care and exercise will then restore her. London is a good air for ladies; and if you bring her hither, I will do for her what she did for me—I will retire from ...

— The Life Of Johnson, Volume 3 of 6 • Boswell

... gave her time and strength to develop beauty of person and refinement of taste and manners. It gave her the teaching capacity, for it put all the younger child-life into her exclusive care, with some leisure at command to devote to its mental and moral, as well as physical, well-being. It led to a closer relationship between man and woman than the world had known before, and thus gave each the advantage of the other's qualities. And always and everywhere the subjection of woman to man has had a ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various

... enough in the beautiful work which we are happy to render accessible to the French public.(11) We believe in it in its philosophical sense, and not simply in the juridical sense attached to it by Ulpian. "Let us not," observes Portalis, "confound the physical order of nature, common to all animated beings, with the natural law which is peculiar to man. We call natural law, the principles which govern man considered as a moral being, that is, as an intelligent and free being, intended to live in the society of other beings, intelligent ...

— Principles Of Political Economy • William Roscher

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