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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

Respectable practitioners of physic thought him brilliantly mad, philosophers thought him brilliantly sane.

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

Quantum computing uses the principles of quantum physics to solve problems far beyond the capabilities of today’s best supercomputers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Quantum computers represent a fundamentally different type of computing that uses the principles of quantum physics to solve problems far beyond the capabilities of today’s best supercomputers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

"It's lovely to get involved with people in the community - it's all about introducing people to physics in a safe-ish environment," he said.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

The researchers argue that quantum physics could naturally produce such a bounce.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

Dispute over Copernicanism was distorted by the intervention of the theologians, but the dispute over physics could take place without such interference.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

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

Nearly every one who knew of the facts in his case was alarmed, and many did not hesitate to cry out, even in his hearing, "He must be physicked, or die!"

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

Pitt promised his help to Addington, whose father had physicked the Pitt family, and persuaded some of his followers to join the new ministry.

From The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration by Reginald Lane Poole

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

There are some little enormities of that kind which really can not be forgiven, and one such is, to miss the opportunity of physicking a baby.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

The popular treatment, which comprehends blood-letting, physicking, and the use of powerful diuretics, has proved notoriously unsuccessful.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd

This physicking off disease is about as foolish as taking physic to prevent it—of which I have said so much in Chapter XI. and elsewhere.

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

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

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




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