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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(label)

(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?

Adjective

(en adjective)

Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.

* 1667, (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , ,

[…] Hesperus, that led / The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, / Rising in clouded majesty, at length / Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, / And o’er the dark her silver mantle threw.

Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.

* (William Shakespeare), ,

Salisbury: It is apparent foul-play; and ’tis shame / That greatness should so grossly offer it: / So thrive it in your game! and so, farewell.

* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 20

When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his left side in a glittering pool of blood. When I went to move him, it became at once apparent that he had received some terrible injuries.

Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming.

* 1785, (Thomas Reid), Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man , Essay II (“Of the Powers we have by means of our External Senses”), Chapter XIX (“Of Matter and of Space”),

What (George Berkeley) calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude.

* 1848 , , (The History of England from the Accession of James the Second) ,

To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship.

* 1911 , , “”,

This apparent motion is due to the finite velocity of light, and the progressive motion of the observer with the earth, as it performs its yearly course about the sun.

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