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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Even so, students around the country are using the tools to help write essays, complete math and physics problem sets, and otherwise present the illusion of knowledge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
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
Like quantum physics, Einstein’s theory of relativity, or how to flirt.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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"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
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
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
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
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
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
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 John Hanning Speke
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
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
Besides, the dog was a good creature, and deserved a good physicking; he did indeed.
From The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
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