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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

So when, at 20, he devised his physic pill he used aloes, ginger and soap.

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

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

In physics, equilibrium describes a condition in which a system's overall properties have settled into a stable balance.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Nearly a decade after Tesla first announced its second-generation Roadster, the company debuted the car in a flashy demo that seemed to challenge the laws of physics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Physicist Marc Millis heads NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Project and hopes to overcome this problem with the physics of zero.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

The doctors came, physicked but did not bleed him, and yesterday morning he was better.

From The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) by Charles Greville

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

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

The prescriptions of Dr. Bulleyn, in the reign of Elizabeth, are wonderful examples of how our fathers were physicked.

From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various

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

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 principal or almost only hope of cure consists in bleeding, physicking, and blistering on the right side.

From The Dog by William Youatt

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

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


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