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
On hours of talk or squabbling rude, Of physic, barbers, flirting, food, A gentleman does not intrude.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Well, if you don’t feel good why don’t you take a physic?
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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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
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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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