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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

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

The improved accuracy provides scientists with a powerful new tool for investigating the origins of the Universe and testing 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

Rudolf Abel, a man who read physics textbooks for fun, understood the basic science.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

If a bullet was extracted, a gun repaired, an old sultan physicked, or the split lobe of an ear mended, a cow or cows were at hand to be paid when the task was finished.

From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by William Henry Giles Kingston

She was well physicked, and on the third day was produced before my class and properly secured.

From The Dog by William Youatt

No doctor ever physicked me, Was never near my side.

From Quaint Epitaphs by Various

I lay ill in a hut there once for three months, and never had a doctor near me; a woman just physicked me with roots, and did me a power of good.

From The White Hecatomb And other Stories by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

You have had several distinguished fellow-sufferers, including provincial representatives and railroad directors, for to my horror she physicked a very famous one the last time he came.

From Thurston of Orchard Valley by W. Herbert Dunton

Now, physicking off generally weakens us, instead of giving strength.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

It won’t do for you to be physicking one way and me another, so let it alone.”

From The New Mistress A Tale by George Manville Fenn

Victualling and physicking are very good things, but must be done in season.

From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Charles James Lever

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

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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