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Definition of Fleshly

Fleshly
Fleshly Flesh"ly, a. [AS. ?.] 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.
Fleshly
Fleshly Flesh"ly, adv. In a fleshly manner; carnally; lasciviously. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Meaning of Fleshly from wikipedia

- The Fleshly School is the name given by Robert Buchanan to a realistic, sensual school of poets, to which Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and...
- or matter) in Gnosticism describes the lowest level of human nature—the fleshly, instinctive level. This is not the notion of body as opposed to thought;...
- ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts its own fleshly counterpart. In fiction and mythology, a doppelgänger is often portra****...
- Frankenstein monster-like creature, Chopfyt, made from their combined fleshly parts by the tinsmith Ku-Klip. 13 The Magic of Oz John R. Neill 1919 Reilly...
- after the resurrection, emphasising the reality of the flesh and of Jesus' fleshly resurrection Gospel According to the Hebrews Early 2nd c. Events in the...
- done for my true love. Then was I born of a virgin pure, Of her I took fleshly substance Thus was I knit to man's nature To call my true love to my dance...
- wrote to a correspondent in Brussels, "the marriage was concluded for no fleshly consideration, but in order to remedy the disorders of this kingdom and...
- Christ as a holy angelic messenger divinely sent from heaven by God to his fleshly incarnation, like an Angel of the Lord in some other Messianic Christian...
- while Irenaeus insisted that Christians would be raised from the dead in fleshly bodies. According to Irenaeus, this verse was used by the Gnostics to argue...
- that of Plotinus, a Neoplatonist who taught that only through disdain for fleshly desire could one reach the ultimate state of mankind. Augustine taught...