Definition of "bodie" [bodie]

• Obsolete spelling of body. (noun)

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• "Staffe in our vulgare Poesie I know not why it should be so called, unless it be for that we vnderstand it for a bearer or supporter of a song or ballad, not vnlike the old weake bodie, that is stayed vp by his staffe, and were not otherwise able to walke or to stand vpright."
• "Staffe in our vulgare Poesie I know not why it should be so called, vnlesse it be for that we vnderstand it for a bearer or supporter of a song or ballad not vnlike the old weake bodie, that is stayed vp by his staffe, and were not otherwise able to walke or to stand vpright."
• "Truly Theise dissemblers do not giue to god this worshipp of mynde and bodie which is due vnto him/but the Idolatrie of mynd and bodie they do commytt/bothe because they owtwardlie do ioyne with papistes in their Idolatrie/and because in their mynde they do persuade them selues that it is lawfull for them so to do."