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
According to him, city planners must use architectural physic and surgery.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Well, if you don’t feel good why don’t you take a physic?
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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He earned a degree in applied physics with a minor in electrical engineering from Cornell University, followed by a master’s degree in quantum electronics from UC Berkeley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
"Over the past 10 years, people have been learning to control these systems, and now we are at the point where we can use them to do fundamental physics research."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
The physics prize will be announced on Tuesday and chemistry on Wednesday, with the economics prize wrapping up the awards week on October 13.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
"Glaciers are complex because they gain mass at the top and they flow downstream, so there is a lot of physics," explained Maussion.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
This barrier was disappointing news to the physics world, but it was the beginning of a new branch of physics: thermodynamics.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Our illustrations might be indefinitely multiplied, but those given will amply suffice to show the way in which our fathers were physicked.
From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various
I knew lords, and physicked them, too, when I was a blundering allopathist.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
She literally swooped down upon the poor, taking one and all in charge to be fed, physicked, worked and guided according to her own ideas.
From The Bishop's Secret by Fergus Hume
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
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 Janet Ross
Doctor Slop, in no merit outdone By his scribbling or physicking brother, Can dose us with stuff like the one.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
Be that as it may, she broke up her establishment in town at this time, and retired to a lonely cottage in Wales, where she amused herself in superintending her dairy and physicking the poor.
From Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century by George Paston
This physicking was continued for two long, long days, and then I began slowly to recover.
From Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North by Ida Pfeiffer
The physicking and shoeing is taken by contract, by one man.
From Here and There in London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
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
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