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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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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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
Thanks to favorable physics, AM signals also travel much farther—I once picked up a station in Chicago at nighttime while driving through North Carolina.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026
Hundreds of scientific papers have appeared within just a few years, and altermagnetism has become a prominent subject at international physics conferences.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
It is here that the mainstream of physics ends and the fringe begins.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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The Curia treats the Council with scientific skill, like a patient who has first to be gently physicked, and then has stronger doses given him by degrees.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger
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
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
It fell away all at once, though no change was made in the diet; and yet we learn it has been physicked.
From The Dog by Dinks
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
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
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
Night and day, my lady, for two years, have I peen physicking his excellency and all his family:—de governor is subject to de malady of a pad digestion and crudities which gives him troublesome dreams.
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy
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
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
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