Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PHYS'IC-AL-LY, adv.

1. 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 be physically impossible. I am not now treating physically of light or colors. – Locke.
2. According to the art or rules of medicine. [Obs.] He that lives physically, must live miserably. – Cheyne.