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The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person.
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The trained muscular structure of a person's body.
Examples of physique in a Sentence
He looked like a professional wrestler with his muscular physique, tattoos, and long braid.
In personal appearance he was tall and corpulent, of a dignified presence and extremely powerful physique, with a bald forehead, close-cropped hair and short moustaches.
The upper class greatly surpasses the common people in physique and intelligence.
His panther-like physique and tattoos gave him all the appearance of a threat, and yet, he'd fended off her blows with gentleness he didn't have to show.
Phillips Brooks was a tall, well-proportioned man of fine physique, his height being six feet four inches.
Mortality is decreasing, but if we may judge from the physical conditions of the recruits the physique of the nation shows little or no improvement.
He looked like death with his dark hair and cold eyes, his panther-like physique, and gloved hands.
They are typical Berbers in physique, tall, well made and muscular, with European features and fair skins bronzed by the sun.
That he enjoyed warfare there can be no doubt; and his splendid physique and early training had well fitted him for martial exercises.
While their general physique approximates to the Polynesian type, they are often characterized by a stunted form and a dark complexion.
Their language was allied to that of the Maoris of New Zealand, but they differed somewhat from them in physique, and they were probably a cross between an immigrating Polynesian group and a lower indigenous Melanesian stock.
Endowed with a fine physique and great personal courage, he devoted himself whole-heartedly to a military career.
The Achaeans, or Hellenes, as they were later termed, were on this hypothesis one of the fair-haired tribes of upper Europe known to the ancients as Keltoi (Celts), who from time to time have pressed down over the Alps into the southern lands, successively as Achaeans, Gauls, Goths and Franks, and after the conquest of the indigenous small dark race in no long time died out under climatic conditions fatal to their physique and morale.
Mitscherlich's published papers are chiefly to be found in the Abhandlungen of the Berlin Academy, in Poggendorff's Annalen, and in the Annales de chimie et de physique.
Like most conquering races the Fula are, however, not of uniform physique, in many districts approximating to the local type.
He was an original member of the Physical Society of London (1874) and a member of the Societe Frangaise Physique.
One construction of the instrument, described in Jamin's Cours de physique, is shown in fig.
O'Connell was a remarkable man in every sense of the word, of splendid physique, and with all the attractions of a popular leader.
Many of them were published in the Annales de chimie, which after it changed its title to Annales de chimie et physique he edited, with Arago, up to nearly the end of his life; but some are to be found in the Memoires d'Arcueil and the Comptes rendus, and in the Recherches physiques et chimiques, published with Thenard in 1811.
The suggestion made in 1789 by Jean Claude de la Metherie (1743-1817), the editor of the Journal de physique, that this might be done by calcining with charcoal the sulphate of soda formed from salt by the action of oil of vitriol, did not succeed in practice because the product was almost entirely sulphide of soda, but it gave Le Blanc, as he himself acknowledged, a basis upon which to work.
The aborigines are represented by a few rude hill-tribes, who resemble in physique the Battas of Sumatra.
No ethnical relationship can ever have existed between the Aztecs and the Egyptians; yet each race developed the idea of the pyramid tomb through that psychological similarity which is as much a characteristic of the species man as is his physique.
His principal work, Rapports du physique et du moral de l'homme, consists in part of memoirs, read in 1796 and 1 797 to the Institute, and is a sketch of physiological psychology.
Another task to which he set himself immediately after his return to St Petersburg was the preparation of his Lettres a une princesse d'Allemagne sur quelques sujets de physique et de philosophie (3 vols., 1768-1772).
The chiefs are a real aristocracy, excelling the people in physique, skill, intellect and acquirements of all sorts; and the reverence felt for them, now gradually diminishing, was very great, and had something of a religious character.
Subsequent epidemics have not been attended by anything like this mortality, but there has, however, been a steady decrease, principally among young children, owing to whooping-cough, tuberculosis and croup. Every Fijian child seems to contract yaws at some time in its life, a mistaken notion existing on the part of the parents that it strengthens the child's physique.
Successive attacks of stone in the bladder had ruined his physique; while his hesitation and timidity increased with age.
Authorities.-As regards the scientific aspects of the country, almost everything of value in previous books and papers is included in the magnificent work (1882 et seq.), in 28 4to vols., by Alfred Grandidier, entitled Histoire naturelle, physique, et politique de Madagascar.
They are of a dark brown complexion, with very broad noses, lips but slightly everted, and small but usually sturdy physique, though often considerably emaciated owing to insufficiency of food.
Brongniart, he founded the Annales des sciences naturelles, and from 1840 he was one of the editors of the Annales de chimie et de physique.
Among heroes he was specially attracted by the mighty physique of Hercules.
Thanks to her unconcealed admiration of his physique, he had to be aware of her physical attraction to him, though.
A head taller than her tallest warrior, Xander was thick yet agile, his bulging physique covered in skin the same shade of bronze as hers.
No rider is more tactically astute or more capable of pushing his physique to greater discomfort.
John Scott is the yoga teacher who helped Madonna sculpt her body to its high level of fitness and toned physique.
Yes, you could build a good physique using machines.
You achieve a bigger, leaner physique that just keeps getting bigger and leaner!
They develop the physique evenly unlike some sports which require specialized use of certain muscles or muscle groups.
Or have the Germans still got enough physique to be able to stonewall them from behind the gigantic teutonic myth?
The fully prepared, athletic physique, attained after sustained intake of carbohydrates, requires both protein and the pure energy provided by glucose.
Jon has a very esthetic physique with an awsome chest.
Now, I don't know about you but when I think of a ballet dancers physique I think slender beauty.
A good poser will sometimes walk away with the trophy that would have normally been given to a superior physique.
The physique of Stanton Moor people must have been rather slender.
Amber works out regularly at the gym keeping her physique toned and inviting.
He had a good compact physique, very tiny waist, just lacked the mass of the top two.
In 5th was Simon Yates with a very well-balanced physique.
Most of Thenard's memoirs, a list of which may be found in the Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers, were published in the Annales de Chimie et de Physique, the Memoires d'Arcueil, the Cornptes Rendus and the Memoires of the Academy of Sciences.
The sultan, who had risen from a Mongolian slave to become a second Saladin, and who combined the physique and audacity of a Danton with the tenacity and religiosity of a Philip II., dealt blow after blow to the Franks of the East.
More 3 that R ought to be 1 For a discussion of theories of magnetic stress, with copious references, see Nagaoka, Rap. du Congres International de Physique (Paris, 1900), ii.