physic
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A spiritual adviser to Oprah Winfrey and purveyor of physic memorabilia online, Williamson spent about a year seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
Lord Sands in “Henry VIII”: ’Tis time to give ’em physic, their diseases are grown so catching.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2020
Greenall’s Berkeley Square London Dry Gin summons, for him, “the atmosphere of an English physic garden in summer.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2012
On hours of talk or squabbling rude, Of physic, barbers, flirting, food, A gentleman does not intrude.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Phusis became the source of physic, which at first meant natural science and later was the word for medicine.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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It came from Dangerfield’s love of quantum physics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
He also evangelizes about the benefits it will bring to the study of biology, mathematics and physics.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
Thanks to favorable physics, AM signals also travel much farther—I once picked up a station in Chicago at nighttime while driving through North Carolina.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026
The Europhysics Prize recognizes major advances in condensed matter physics, a field concerned with the physical properties and behavior of materials.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
The Aristotelian view of physics, as wrong as it was, was so influential that for more than a millennium it eclipsed all opposing views, including more realistic ones.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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But look here: doctors look at people’s tongues to see whether they wants to be physicked, or to have their arms or legs cut off.
From The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War by George Manville Fenn
In this memorandum two indisputable items figured up over three hundred francs,—one for the doctor, the other for the apothecary who had attended and physicked Eponine and Azelma through two long illnesses.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
“I say, Easy, we must both be physicked on the same day.”
From Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat
If a bullet was extracted, a gun repaired, an old sultan physicked, or the split lobe of an ear mended, a cow or cows were at hand to be paid when the task was finished.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by William Henry Giles Kingston
I lay ill in a hut there once for three months, and never had a doctor near me; a woman just physicked me with roots, and did me a power of good.
From The White Hecatomb And other Stories by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
I could see her romping with them, helping them to tear their clothes; but likewise I could see her flying after them, bringing back an armful struggling, bathing it, physicking it.
From Paul Kelver, a Novel by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
Now, physicking off generally weakens us, instead of giving strength.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
Victualling and physicking are very good things, but must be done in season.
From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Charles James Lever
The principal or almost only hope of cure consists in bleeding, physicking, and blistering on the right side.
From The Dog by William Youatt
Neuropaths invariably contract the habit of physicking themselves, and taking patent foods and drugs which are valueless.
From Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment by Isaac George Briggs
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