Adjective

(en adjective)

Characteristic of members of the armed forces.

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(lb) Relating to armed forces such as the army, marines, navy and air force (often as distinguished from civilians or police forces).

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Relating to war.

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Relating to armies or ground forces.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Having to do with the body.

Having to do with the material world.

* John Stuart Mill

Labour, in the physical world, is employed in putting objects in motion.

* Macaulay

A society sunk in ignorance, and ruled by mere physical force.

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Involving bodily force.

Having to do with physics.

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(obsolete) Relating to physic, or medicine; medicinal; curative; also, cathartic; purgative.

* Sir T. North

Physical herbs.

* Shakespeare

Is Brutus sick? and is it physical / To walk unbraced, and suck up the humours / Of the dank morning?