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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

On hours of talk or squabbling rude, Of physic, barbers, flirting, food, A gentleman does not intrude.

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

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

Beyond refining estimates of the Universe's earliest chemical composition, the new measurement provides an important test of the Standard Model of physics.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 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

Based on the laws of physics, if our pendulum was placed in a vacuum, it would never stop swinging, back and forth, back and forth.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

"No, we've had the 'lark,' and must now be physicked."

From Leslie Ross: or, Fond of a Lark by Charles Bruce

Some people refuse to be bled or physicked on a Friday.

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James Grant

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 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

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

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood

I will next speak about those other four subjects which Scrofa outlined, namely: the feeding, breeding, raising and physicking of sheep.

From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Fairfax Harrison

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 William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

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 Pye Henry Chavasse

In the intervals of political business she occupied herself with superintending her building and gardening operations, physicking the sick, and tyrannising over her numerous servants.

From Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century by George Paston

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


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