physique
[fi-zeek]
- physical or bodily structure, appearance, or development: the physique of an athlete.
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Origin of physique
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Contemporary Examples
He exploited a physique that most would try desperately to diminish.
And young men developed a sense for the age of a girl and her physique, purely from the way she walked.
Saudi Activist Manal Al-Sharif on Why She Removed the VeilManal Al Sharif, Advancing Human Rights
October 30, 2014
The other is a Jersey bruiser, with a (much-discussed) physique reminiscent of Tony Soprano after a doughnut bender.
Slim trousers appeared to have been constructed of a kind of mesh, the tiny holes aerating the physique.
But they appear to be cut for the sort of woman who has the physique of a 12-year-old boy.
Historical Examples
The physique of the true fashionable is peculiar and characteristic.
Our workmen and soldiers are large in physique, but dwarfed of intellect.
City of Endless NightMilo Hastings
It was growing stronger and stronger, as my physique remained undeveloped.
The Law-BreakersRidgwell Cullum
She was slight of figure and stronger of will than physique, but she did not feel the cold.
The Shadow of a CrimeHall Caine
Our physique is slowly rotting, and that is the plain truth of it.
Another SheafJohn Galsworthy
physique
- the general appearance of the body with regard to size, shape, muscular development, etc
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Word Origin
C19: via French, from physique (adj) natural, from Latin physicus physical
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Word Origin and History for physique
n.
1826, from French physique, noun use of physique (adj.) "physical," from Latin physicus "natural, physics," from Greek physikos, from physis "nature" (see physic).
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
physique
(fĭ-zēk′)- The body considered with reference to its proportions, muscular development, and appearance.
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