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
Some whites have learned not to take a physic for every stomachache, observed Dr. Boland.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It was nothing a good physic or a patent medicine wouldn’t take care of.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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Even so, students around the country are using the tools to help write essays, complete math and physics problem sets, and otherwise present the illusion of knowledge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
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
Dr. Gibson-Gray earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering, and a master’s and doctorate in physics, all from the University of Delaware.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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He physicked indiscriminately, or bled or starved his patients, without paying the slightest regard to their ailments.
From Peter the Whaler by Henry Austin
Both of them took medicine—moderate cathartics—till they thought they had physicked off the disease; and all seemed, for a time, to be well, except that they complained still of great weakness and debility.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
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
No doctor ever physicked me, Was never near my side.
From Quaint Epitaphs by Various
She was well physicked, and on the third day was produced before my class and properly secured.
From The Dog by William Youatt
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
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
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
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
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