physic

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

Some whites have learned not to take a physic for every stomachache, observed Dr. Boland.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

GPS navigation, lasers, and modern electronics all emerged from advances rooted in theoretical quantum physics and Einstein's theory of gravity.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

The new telescope will also shed light on two of the biggest mysteries in physics: dark matter and dark energy.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

This is more than an academic physics exercise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

"Understanding how gravity and quantum mechanics fit together is one of the greatest challenges in physics," concludes Foo.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

Rudolf Abel, a man who read physics textbooks for fun, understood the basic science.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

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

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

November was considered a good month for invalids being bled or physicked, but every day was not considered equally lucky for applying the lance or swallowing the draught.

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 James Grant

"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

Both of them took medicine—moderate cathartics—till they thought they had physicked off the disease; and all seemed, for a time, to be well, except that they complained still of great weakness and debility.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

I have here a word or two to say to a mother who is always physicking her family.

From Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Pye Henry Chavasse

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

Victualling and physicking are very good things, but must be done in season.

From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Charles James Lever

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

Besides, the dog was a good creature, and deserved a good physicking; he did indeed.

From The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins