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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

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

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

“We’re opening new offices. We’ve got lots of other plans across the region. Laws of physics of bricks and mortar will always mean it takes time.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

Achieving that would require the physical AI foundation model to “understand the physics, kinematics, dynamics of the world really well,” Pathak said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

That motion is caused by the Magnus effect, a familiar piece of physics that also influences the flight of larger balls in sports such as soccer.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

Curceanu emphasized the importance of supporting research into unconventional questions at the foundations of physics.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

Thomas Hobbes, writing in 1655, thought that there was no astronomy worth the name before Copernicus, no physics before Galileo, no physiology before William Harvey.

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

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

The doctors came, physicked but did not bleed him, and yesterday morning he was better.

From The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) by Charles Greville

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

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood

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

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

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

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

Talk's a brew   Mischievous, heady, easy raised, whose sting   Is ill to bear, and not by physicking   Voided.

From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Maurice Henry Hewlett

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 Herbert Strang




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