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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

The original plan was to scrap physics, chemistry and biology as separate courses, but that is on hold until at least 2031.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Quantum physics, developed in the early 20th century, instead focuses on atoms and subatomic particles.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

If the interpretation is confirmed, the result could help physicists test how established theories of quantum physics behave under some of the most extreme conditions found anywhere in the universe.

From Science Daily Aug. 18, 2026

The latter played Casey, a student with Ivy League ambitions whose interest in physics brings her to the figure skating world.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

Einstein stated that if a number of people watch the same phenomenon—say, the flight of a raven toward a tree, the laws of physics are the same for each observer.

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

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

Say”––his eyes wandered to where his carefully written regulations were posted, “talkin’ o’ baths, have you physicked the kids right?”

From The Twins of Suffering Creek by Ridgwell Cullum

But look here: doctors look at people’s tongues to see whether they wants to be physicked, or to have their arms or legs cut off.

From The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War by George Manville Fenn

He physicked indiscriminately, or bled or starved his patients, without paying the slightest regard to their ailments.

From Peter the Whaler by Henry Austin

She was well physicked, and on the third day was produced before my class and properly secured.

From The Dog by William Youatt

Neuropaths invariably contract the habit of physicking themselves, and taking patent foods and drugs which are valueless.

From Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment by Isaac George Briggs

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

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

Be that as it may, she broke up her establishment in town at this time, and retired to a lonely cottage in Wales, where she amused herself in superintending her dairy and physicking the poor.

From Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century by George Paston

Last Monday he told me that more physicking was no good, and that I had better be off here, and see what exercise and the fresh air of the moors would do for me.

From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Thomas Henry Huxley




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