Meaning

Of or relating to the body..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of or relating to the body.
2. Of, relating to or resembling flesh; composed of flesh; having a lot of flesh.
3. Of or relating to pleasurable (often sexual) sensations.
4. Of or relating to non-spiritual or non-religious matters.
5. (archaic) In a sensual way; in a sexual way; carnally.

Example Sentences

[…] in the body of this fleshly land, This kingdom, this confine of blood and breath, Hostility and civil tumult reigns Between my conscience and my cousin’s death.

[…] to unfold What Worlds, or what vast Regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook:

When from their fleshly Bondage they are free, Then what divine, and future things they see!

those inward pains that agonize us more than all our fleshly wounds

We shook hands—though I doubt if a mere fleshly contact can express much while the self behind it is dumb with instinctive distaste.

1793, uncredited translator, The Natural History of Birds by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, London: A. Strahan, T. Cadell and J. Murray, Volume 2, pp. 52-53, In almost all birds, except the carnivorous kinds, the male seems to have more power of development, which appears in their greater height, the strength of their muscles, and in certain excrescences, as fleshly membranes, spurs, &c. […]

[…] lay on load enough vpon e’m, and spare e’m not, for the’re good plump fleshly Asses, and may well enough beare it:

He touched the leaves of some of the glossy bushes to find out whether they felt as fleshly as they looked. [At least one U.S. edition has fleshy]

Word Forms

• fleshlier
• fleshliest
• more fleshly
• most fleshly

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