Synonyms:
physique, build, body-build, habitus
Meaning: constitution of the human body
Usage examples
She was already old, with a ravaged countenance and a physique curiously hard and stiff.
There was for him in that affair a malignancy of perverted justice which, by means of a moral shock, attacked his vigorous physique.
Indeed, I half suspect that the soil might be left quietly to rear weeds till that time; and as to dreaminess, it signifies nothing if there be a strong "physique." With a weak frame, imagination will play the tyrant, and never cease till it dominates over all the other faculties; but where there is strength and activity, there is no fear of this.
To be held paralyzed, with one's back toward some horrible and unknown danger from the very sound of which the ferocious Apache warriors turn in wild stampede, as a flock of sheep would madly flee from a pack of wolves, seems to me the last word in fearsome predicaments for a man who had ever been used to fighting for his life with all the energy of a powerful physique.