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
So when, at 20, he devised his physic pill he used aloes, ginger and soap.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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"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
There is a cruel physics beneath the financial unfairness.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
"But this originates from a very fundamental level of physics, which is the interference between different optical absorption processes."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
Solving this paradox quickly became the leading puzzle in physics.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Our illustrations might be indefinitely multiplied, but those given will amply suffice to show the way in which our fathers were physicked.
From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various
Some people refuse to be bled or physicked on a Friday.
From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist
She was well physicked, and on the third day was produced before my class and properly secured.
From The Dog by Youatt, William
You have had several distinguished fellow-sufferers, including provincial representatives and railroad directors, for to my horror she physicked a very famous one the last time he came.
From Thurston of Orchard Valley by Dunton, W. Herbert
The people get stoppage of the bowels and die in eight days unless they are physicked; all who have sent for me in time have recovered.
From Letters from Egypt by Ross, Janet
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 Speke, John Hanning
So given was he to physicking himself, that it occurred to him as a natural thing to use his drugs in order to gain a few quiet literary days.
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by Stebbing, W. (William)
The physicking and shoeing is taken by contract, by one man.
From Here and There in London by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
The doctors lost half their practice in consequence of the reliance of the people on these spiritual methods of physicking.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various
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
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