bodied

1. 1
   adjectivein compounds

   Having a body of a specified form, build, or type.

   Connoisseurs praised the claret as remarkably well bodied.

   Only able-bodied recruits passed the grueling physical test.

   Note

   It rarely stands alone and usually forms the back half of compounds that say what kind of body something has: able-bodied recruits, or a claret praised as well bodied for its weight. It is built from body plus the -ed that turns nouns into describing words, as in bearded. Before a noun the compound is normally hyphenated, as in an able-bodied recruit.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of body.

   The poet bodied forth his grief in vivid imagery.

   Her fears were finally bodied in the shapes that filled her dreams.

   Note

   The verb follows the usual rule for words ending in a consonant plus y: the y turns to i before -ed, and one spelling serves as both past tense and participle. The verb behind it ranges widely. A car is bodied when its bodywork is built, and an idea is bodied forth when given shape. In slang, someone bodied has been murdered or utterly beaten. The same spelling is also the adjective of build.

3. 3
   adjective

   Having a physical body; corporeal or made flesh.

   Ancient myths describe gods who chose to walk the earth bodied as mortals.

   The philosopher asked whether a bodied soul differs from a purely spiritual one.

   Similarembodied, incarnate, corporeal

   Oppositeincorporeal

   Note

   Here the word stands on its own rather than inside the compound adjective, as in a bodied soul or gods bodied as mortals. It says nothing about build. It asks only whether a body is there at all, so it belongs to talk of myth, incarnation and the soul. Its natural foil is disembodied, the more familiar word for being without one.

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