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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"Pair density waves are the Cheshire Cat's grin of superconductivity," said Eduardo Fradkin, an Illinois Grainger Engineering physics professor and a project co-lead.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
A game's engine is a piece of software that packs everything needed to craft a playable experience - including graphics rendering, physics simulation and scripting - into one place for creators.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The winners of the six Nobel prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics will be revealed daily from October 5-12.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
He has said they started teaching him advanced physics in kindergarten and by ninth grade, he had begun crafting plans to start a company someday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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 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
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
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
That one must be doctor or lawyer or baker or shoemaker, to gain his living, as if life had no other wants than to be clothed and fed and physicked and litigated.
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever
With despair in his heart he still wrote on, simply because the labour in which he had delight physicked the pains of impecuniosity.
From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by H. G. Somerville
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
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
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
But Victoria easily recovered from and forgot this preliminary and bad physicking, and was soon to be seen galloping on its road of progress as if nothing to its damage could ever have happened.
From Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria by William Westgarth
Severe drain as this was on the medicine-chest, Magamba and his wife must have both wet and dry; and even others put in a claim, but were told they were too healthy to require physicking.
From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
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