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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

Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland have now introduced a theoretical framework designed to make thermodynamics and quantum physics work consistently in the same setting.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

Those changing signals also exist within the constraints imposed by physics and physiology.

From Science Daily Aug. 18, 2026

This is not to excuse excesses, but to point out a mundane matter of physics.

From The Wall Street Journal 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

Galileo contributed to physics and astronomy, while teaching fortification and optics.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

“I say, Easy, we must both be physicked on the same day.”

From Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat

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

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

"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

Besides, the dog was a good creature, and deserved a good physicking; he did indeed.

From The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

I told him I was going physicking, that the camps were down with fever, and the spread of it might seriously interfere with Dave's work.

From The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley by Ridgwell Cullum

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

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

It won’t do for you to be physicking one way and me another, so let it alone.”

From The New Mistress A Tale by George Manville Fenn




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