PHYS'ICALLY, adverb According to nature; by natural power or the operation of natural laws in the material system of things, as distinguished from moral power or influence. We suppose perpetual motion to by physically impossible. I am not now treating physically of light or colors. 1. According to the art or rules of medicine. He that lives physically must live miserably.
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