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
So when, at 20, he devised his physic pill he used aloes, ginger and soap.
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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One famous Odesan who found himself at the centre of the language controversy is Pavlo Viktor, a physics teacher whose online lessons have been followed by millions around the world.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Huang said that world models, which are designed to comprehend real-world physics, may still struggle to actually achieve that goal in three years.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026
Brust and Wray, both 34, met in physics class at St. Olaf College in their native Minnesota more than a decade ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Joseph attended Harvard University on the GI bill and completed majors in math and physics in just three years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Bassi held a chair in physics, and naturally taught the physics of Newton.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
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
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
If a bullet was extracted, a gun repaired, an old sultan physicked, or the split lobe of an ear mended, a cow or cows were at hand to be paid when the task was finished.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by William Henry Giles Kingston
"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
At the date to which I am referring, some forty years ago, there was a great taste in many private families for immoderate physicking.
From The Gentleman Cadet His Career and Adventures at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich by A.W. Drayson
The principal or almost only hope of cure consists in bleeding, physicking, and blistering on the right side.
From The Dog by William Youatt
And in vain it is To think of waiting longer; pitiful To dream of coaxing shy fecundity To an unlikely freak by physicking With superstitious drugs and quackeries That work you harm, not good.
From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
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
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
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