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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

His modest knowledge of physic was of assistance to the great Franklin, the great Linnaeus, and Catherine the Great, who conceived a dangerous gratitude for him after he removed her stone.

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

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

Together, their work has revealed a fundamental property of magnetic matter that escaped recognition for more than a century, opening an entirely new direction for research into quantum physics and future electronic technologies.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

The first inescapable zero in physics comes from a law that had been in use for half a century.

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

If in high condition, the animal must first be bled and physicked.

From Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. by Richard L. Allen

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 Janet Ross

She was an agent for Morison's Pills—but having a fractious Scotch lodger that she couldn't get out, she physicked him so dreadfully that he nearly died, and the police took her licence away.

From Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities by Robert Smith Surtees

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

"No, we've had the 'lark,' and must now be physicked."

From Leslie Ross: or, Fond of a Lark by Charles Bruce

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

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

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 W. (William) Stebbing

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

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


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