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physic

[fiz-ik] / ˈfɪz ɪk /




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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

Well, if you don’t feel good why don’t you take a physic?

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Although the findings add evidence for dark matter, they do not answer one of the largest remaining questions in physics: what dark matter actually consists of.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

A decades-old puzzle in nuclear physics has centered on a strange question: why do some atomic nuclei release more low-energy gamma rays than scientists expect?

From Science Daily Aug. 21, 2026

The original plan was to scrap physics, chemistry and biology as separate courses, but that is on hold until at least 2031.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

This is not to excuse excesses, but to point out a mundane matter of physics.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

The traditional historiographical emphasis on the new physics assumes that the mathematization of the world began in the seventeenth century.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

She had been petted, and physicked, and nursed, after the manner of only children, and grew up sickly as a matter of course.

From Trevlyn Hold by Mrs. Henry Wood

The prescriptions of Dr. Bulleyn, in the reign of Elizabeth, are wonderful examples of how our fathers were physicked.

From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 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

If in high condition, the animal must first be bled and physicked.

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 Richard L. Allen

Sometimes they pine and fall into a slow consumption, we nursing, cockering, and physicking them to the last.

From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton

The popular treatment, which comprehends blood-letting, physicking, and the use of powerful diuretics, has proved notoriously unsuccessful.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd

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

Last Monday he told me that more physicking was no good, and that I had better be off here, and see what exercise and the fresh air of the moors would do for me.

From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Thomas Henry Huxley

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




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