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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It was nothing a good physic or a patent medicine wouldn’t take care of.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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The physics of enormous men throwing themselves at each other over a leather ball.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Modern physics rests on two remarkably successful frameworks.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
Brust and Wray, both 34, met in physics class at St. Olaf College in their native Minnesota more than a decade ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
One famous Odesan who found himself at the centre of the language controversy is Pavlo Viktor, a physics teacher whose online lessons have been followed by millions around the world.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
The akrafena apparently isn’t concerned with the laws of physics either; somehow, it moves just as fast underwater as it did in the air.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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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
Queen Elizabeth, and the ruin of his invincible fleet, physicked his frenzy into health, and taught him to fear and respect that country which he thought he could have made a province of Spain.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
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
"No, we've had the 'lark,' and must now be physicked."
From Leslie Ross: or, Fond of a Lark by Charles Bruce
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
So given was he to physicking himself, that it occurred to him as a natural thing to use his drugs in order to gain a few quiet literary days.
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing
The principal or almost only hope of cure consists in bleeding, physicking, and blistering on the right side.
From The Dog by William Youatt
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
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
Severe drain as this was on the medicine-chest, Magamba and his wife must have both wet and dry; and even others put in a claim, but were told they were too healthy to require physicking.
From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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