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
Respectable practitioners of physic thought him brilliantly mad, philosophers thought him brilliantly sane.
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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He earned a degree in applied physics with a minor in electrical engineering from Cornell University, followed by a master’s degree in quantum electronics from UC Berkeley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
The collaboration brought together the experimental group of Caltech's Manuel Endres, professor of physics, Alicea's theory group, and theorists at Université Paris-Saclay and the Technical University of Munich.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
The physics prize will be announced on Tuesday and chemistry on Wednesday, with the economics prize wrapping up the awards week on October 13.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
But remember that before Oppenheimer tossed us into the nuclear age, he pioneered modern theoretical physics in the United States.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
This is why Boyle’s contribution to the vacuum debate was entitled New Experiments Physico-mechanical: mechanics is now being used to explain physics.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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If in high condition, the animal must first be bled and physicked.
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
It won’t do for you to be physicking one way and me another, so let it alone.”
From The New Mistress A Tale by George Manville Fenn
I will next speak about those other four subjects which Scrofa outlined, namely: the feeding, breeding, raising and physicking of sheep.
From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Fairfax Harrison
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