- The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or
intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what
is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition. - The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar
part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the
medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending
material objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguished from
conception. - The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by
something external; sensation; sensibility. - An idea; a notion.
- Bodily - Fitness examination - Medical test - Of or pertaining to nature (as including all created
existences); in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or
relating to natural or material things, or to the bodily structure, as
opposed to things mental, moral, spiritual, or imaginary; material;
natural; as, armies and navies are the physical force of a nation; the
body is the physical part of man. - Of or pertaining to physics, or natural philosophy;
treating of, or relating to, the causes and connections of natural
phenomena; as, physical science; physical laws. - Perceptible through a bodily or material organization;
cognizable by the senses; external; as, the physical, opposed to
chemical, characters of a mineral. - Of or pertaining to physic, or the art of medicine;
medicinal; curative; healing; also, cathartic; purgative.