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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

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

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

He studied physics and philosophy at the University of Oxford, where he met his wife, devoured Einstein’s original papers and investigated parallel universes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

"To figure out and eventually predict space weather, we want to understand the physics of the Sun, all the way down to the smallest scales."

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

Our experiment is fully explained by standard physics.

From Science Daily Aug. 4, 2026

Climate models are computer simulations that use the laws of physics to estimate how the atmosphere, oceans, ice, and land respond to greenhouse gases and other influences.

From Science Daily Aug. 1, 2026

Reality and the new science happened, in certain areas of physics, to dovetail quite neatly together.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas

Being a capable needlewoman she soon had them apparelled more to her liking, and the labour physicked pain.

From Judith of the Cumberlands by MacGowan, Alice

She had been petted, and physicked, and nursed, after the manner of only children, and grew up sickly as a matter of course.

From Trevlyn Hold by Wood, Mrs. Henry

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

From Peter the Whaler by Austin, Henry

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

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

But Victoria easily recovered from and forgot this preliminary and bad physicking, and was soon to be seen galloping on its road of progress as if nothing to its damage could ever have happened.

From Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria by Westgarth, William

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, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

Sometimes they pine and fall into a slow consumption, we nursing, cockering, and physicking them to the last.

From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda

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 Hewlett, Maurice Henry

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 Cullum, Ridgwell




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