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
Some whites have learned not to take a physic for every stomachache, observed Dr. Boland.
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 latter is the limiting case in which one part of the system is treated quantum mechanically, while classical physics is sufficient for the other part.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
In emerging quantum technologies, questions like this bring together two branches of physics that were developed for very different purposes.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
The latter played Casey, a student with Ivy League ambitions whose interest in physics brings her to the figure skating world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
"I think they would help answer the fundamental questions of physics that defy logic," he says.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
“Circus, yes. Flying, no. The trapeze stays still. I move around it. It’s just physics, really. But it lets me be . . . me.”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Confound you, do you think I want to be physicked?
From Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest
November was considered a good month for invalids being bled or physicked, but every day was not considered equally lucky for applying the lance or swallowing the draught.
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
The prescriptions of Dr. Bulleyn, in the reign of Elizabeth, are wonderful examples of how our fathers were physicked.
From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various
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
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
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
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
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
The physicking and shoeing is taken by contract, by one man.
From Here and There in London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
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