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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

Well, if you don’t feel good why don’t you take a physic?

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

The medicine prize will be followed by the prizes for physics on Tuesday and chemistry on Wednesday.

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

He earned a degree in applied physics with a minor in electrical engineering from Cornell University, followed by a master’s degree in quantum electronics from UC Berkeley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Learning how to fall and pretending you have superpowers can’t cancel out physics.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

The physics gets complicated, and some of it’s still classified, but the key point is that they figured out a way to ignite a fusion bomb using the X-rays produced by a fission blast.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Confound you, do you think I want to be physicked?

From Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

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

I lay ill in a hut there once for three months, and never had a doctor near me; a woman just physicked me with roots, and did me a power of good.

From The White Hecatomb And other Stories by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

Our illustrations might be indefinitely multiplied, but those given will amply suffice to show the way in which our fathers were physicked.

From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various

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

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

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

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

From The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

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

The principal or almost only hope of cure consists in bleeding, physicking, and blistering on the right side.

From The Dog by William Youatt




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