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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

Phusis became the source of physic, which at first meant natural science and later was the word for medicine.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Even so, students around the country are using the tools to help write essays, complete math and physics problem sets, and otherwise present the illusion of knowledge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

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

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

You apply the problem to the place you implement it—the trapeze bar that lets you feel the way the physics equations work.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

He physicked indiscriminately, or bled or starved his patients, without paying the slightest regard to their ailments.

From Peter the Whaler by Henry Austin

Say”––his eyes wandered to where his carefully written regulations were posted, “talkin’ o’ baths, have you physicked the kids right?”

From The Twins of Suffering Creek by Ridgwell Cullum

Two or three bran mashes given on that or the preceding day, are far from sufficient when a horse is about to be physicked, whether to promote his condition, or in obedience to custom.

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

Confound you, do you think I want to be physicked?

From Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

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

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

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

Night and day, my lady, for two years, have I peen physicking his excellency and all his family:—de governor is subject to de malady of a pad digestion and crudities which gives him troublesome dreams.

From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy

I told him I was going physicking, that the camps were down with fever, and the spread of it might seriously interfere with Dave's work.

From The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley by Ridgwell Cullum

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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