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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

... of the modern sermon! How often we are told that men are asked to take the most important steps, and make the most astounding sacrifices upon arguments which would not convince a seventh standard schoolboy. In speaking of a certain orator, some one said, "There was physical power, for the preacher shouted; ho(a)rse power, for in his roaring he fortunately lost his voice; water power, because he wept most copiously; everything but brain power." We cannot proceed on the exploded fiction that ignorance is the mother of devotion. The schoolmaster is abroad. More than ...

— The Message and the Man: - Some Essentials of Effective Preaching • J. Dodd Jackson

... me. The Russian had revealed much of his character, under the stress of excitement. He spoke of the coming of Immortality in the light of a physical boon to mankind. He seemed to see in his mind's eye a great picture of comfort and physical enjoyment and of a humanity released from the grim spectres of disease and death, and ...

— The Blue Germ • Martin Swayne

... if indeed it be so, does not diminish their deadliness. Not to put the question on the religious ground at all, I fully agree with Carlyle that, on the mere consideration of expedience and physical fact, nothing can be more fatal, more calamitous than 'to burn away in mad waste the divine aromas and celestial elements from our existence; to change our holy of holies into a place of riot; to make the soul itself hard, ...

— Julian Home • Dean Frederic W. Farrar

... that very reason, I suspect, suffering is a more terrific thing. I heard the doctors saying, when I bore pain badly, that it would probably do the less future harm: a bad moral, but I believe it is true of the mental as of the physical constitution.' Answering something between a look and a shrug of James, he mused on, aloud—'I understand better what the wreck of ...

— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. I) - or, The Clue of Life • Charlotte M. Yonge

... has in a more intelligent physician. The ceremonies and prayers are well calculated to inspire this feeling, and the effect thus produced upon the mind of the sick man undoubtedly reacts favorably upon his physical organization. ...

— The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees • James Mooney

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