physic

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

Respectable practitioners of physic thought him brilliantly mad, philosophers thought him brilliantly sane.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was nothing a good physic or a patent medicine wouldn’t take care of.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

The technology uses quantum physics to perform calculations that today’s computers can’t even approach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

Their designs may look playful, but researchers have now used these backyard devices to investigate a serious and decades-old question in physics.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

"There is a problem, though," said Jonathan Shu, a graduate student in physics at Penn State and an author of the paper.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

"I'm a physics teacher and I've got a terrible sense of humour," he confesses, so he particularly likes it if the students pick up on his fondness for corny puns.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

One day we may discover that some of our most cherished forms of knowledge are as obsolete as epicycles, phlogiston, caloric, the electromagnetic aether and, indeed, Newtonian physics.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Two or three bran mashes given on that or the preceding day, are far from sufficient when a horse is about to be physicked, whether to promote his condition, or in obedience to custom.

From Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. by Allen, Richard L.

The people get stoppage of the bowels and die in eight days unless they are physicked; all who have sent for me in time have recovered. 

From Letters from Egypt by Ross, Janet

Confound you, do you think I want to be physicked?

From Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood by Prest, Thomas Preskett

And physicked me and made me worse, Till infancy became a curse?

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas

It fell away all at once, though no change was made in the diet; and yet we learn it has been physicked.

From The Dog by Dinks

I have here a word or two to say to a mother who is always physicking her family.

From Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Chavasse, Pye Henry

This physicking off disease is about as foolish as taking physic to prevent it—of which I have said so much in Chapter XI. and elsewhere.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

Indeed, this lack of water gave us much concern, for as yet we had found none but what smacked of brimstone, and Billy said that we didn't need physicking every day, nor yet every week.

From Palm Tree Island by Strang, Herbert

Victualling and physicking are very good things, but must be done in season.

From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Lever, Charles James

The doctors lost half their practice in consequence of the reliance of the people on these spiritual methods of physicking.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various