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

(-)

Performed by or pertaining to the mind or spirit; mental, psychic.

* 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , Vintage 2007, p. 53:

Who could say where the fleshly impulse ceased, or the psychical impulse began?

(theology) Pertaining to the animal nature of man, as opposed to the spirit.

Outside the realm of the physical; supernatural, psychic.