physic

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

Respectable practitioners of physic thought him brilliantly mad, philosophers thought him brilliantly sane.

From Time Magazine Archive

Well, if you don’t feel good why don’t you take a physic?

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

But remember that before Oppenheimer tossed us into the nuclear age, he pioneered modern theoretical physics in the United States.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

One of his readers was a young Princeton physics doctoral student named Dario Amodei.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

But within the physics of professional cycling—a sport built around wind resistance, watt production, and superhuman tolerance for pain—that odd collection of attributes turns out to be uniquely powerful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

But in particle physics, failing to detect something can still provide important information by ruling out where it could exist.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Bassi held a chair in physics, and naturally taught the physics of Newton.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

With despair in his heart he still wrote on, simply because the labour in which he had delight physicked the pains of impecuniosity.

From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by H. G. Somerville

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

From Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan

She was an agent for Morison's Pills—but having a fractious Scotch lodger that she couldn't get out, she physicked him so dreadfully that he nearly died, and the police took her licence away.

From Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities by Robert Smith Surtees

She literally swooped down upon the poor, taking one and all in charge to be fed, physicked, worked and guided according to her own ideas.

From The Bishop's Secret by Fergus Hume

Meanwhile he taught the young missionaries something of the art of healing, dressing wounds and broken bones, and physicking the ailments to which natives are most subject—fever, dysentery, etc.

From Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak by Henriette McDougall

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

From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton

And in vain it is To think of waiting longer; pitiful To dream of coaxing shy fecundity To an unlikely freak by physicking With superstitious drugs and quackeries That work you harm, not good.

From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy

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

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 William Westgarth