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
His modest knowledge of physic was of assistance to the great Franklin, the great Linnaeus, and Catherine the Great, who conceived a dangerous gratitude for him after he removed her stone.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Well, if you don’t feel good why don’t you take a physic?
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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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
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
Where Aristotle had assumed that each element behaved differently, the new physics assumed that all heavy objects could be thought of as the same.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
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
No doctor ever physicked me, Was never near my side.
From Quaint Epitaphs by Various
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
Confound you, do you think I want to be physicked?
From Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest
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
Sometimes they pine and fall into a slow consumption, we nursing, cockering, and physicking them to the last.
From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton
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
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 could see her romping with them, helping them to tear their clothes; but likewise I could see her flying after them, bringing back an armful struggling, bathing it, physicking it.
From Paul Kelver, a Novel by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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