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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

On hours of talk or squabbling rude, Of physic, barbers, flirting, food, A gentleman does not intrude.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was nothing a good physic or a patent medicine wouldn’t take care of.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

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

Altermagnetism has since grown into one of the most active areas of condensed matter physics, with research efforts expanding across Europe, North America, and Asia.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Pascal’s Puy-de-Dôme experiment seems pretty straightforward to us, but that is because we are used to modern physics.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

I knew lords, and physicked them, too, when I was a blundering allopathist.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various

In this memorandum two indisputable items figured up over three hundred francs,—one for the doctor, the other for the apothecary who had attended and physicked Eponine and Azelma through two long illnesses.

From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood

You have had several distinguished fellow-sufferers, including provincial representatives and railroad directors, for to my horror she physicked a very famous one the last time he came.

From Thurston of Orchard Valley by W. Herbert Dunton

It fell away all at once, though no change was made in the diet; and yet we learn it has been physicked.

From The Dog by Dinks

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

This physicking was continued for two long, long days, and then I began slowly to recover.

From Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North by Ida Pfeiffer

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

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

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

Talk's a brew   Mischievous, heady, easy raised, whose sting   Is ill to bear, and not by physicking   Voided.

From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Maurice Henry Hewlett


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