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
According to him, city planners must use architectural physic and surgery.
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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Notably, however, these young philosophy majors are less likely to be unemployed than their peers with degrees in computer science, computer engineering, information systems or physics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Our spiritual tradition has given the world algebra, chemistry, physics, surgery, pediatrics, the concept of separation of powers and much more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The physics of enormous men throwing themselves at each other over a leather ball.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
That limit represents a fundamental boundary imposed by physics, so approaching it would mark a major advance in the effort to make computing as energy efficient as possible.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
So the physics of music is the physics of the kinds of sounds these instruments can make.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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That one must be doctor or lawyer or baker or shoemaker, to gain his living, as if life had no other wants than to be clothed and fed and physicked and litigated.
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever
"Yes, they vomited and physicked me, blistered and bled me, plastered and oiled me, sweat, steamed, and everything but froze me, but without avail."
From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various
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
I knew lords, and physicked them, too, when I was a blundering allopathist.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
Say”––his eyes wandered to where his carefully written regulations were posted, “talkin’ o’ baths, have you physicked the kids right?”
From The Twins of Suffering Creek by Ridgwell Cullum
Last Monday he told me that more physicking was no good, and that I had better be off here, and see what exercise and the fresh air of the moors would do for me.
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Thomas Henry Huxley
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
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
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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