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physic
[ fiz-ik ]
noun
- a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- any medicine; a drug or medicament.
- Archaic. the medical art or profession.
- Obsolete. natural science.
verb (used with object)
- to treat with or act upon as a physic or medicine.
- to work upon as a medicine does; relieve or cure.
physic
/ ˈfɪzɪk /
noun
- rare.a medicine or drug, esp a cathartic or purge
- archaic.the art or skill of healing
- an archaic term for physics
verb
- archaic.tr to treat (a patient) with medicine
Derived Forms
- ˈphysicky, adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of physic1
Word History and Origins
Origin of physic1
Example Sentences
Between our official classes, we members of Gerace’s tiny physics guild taught ourselves relativity, quantum mechanics, and other mysteries and beauties of modern physics, under the master’s guidance.
The natural processes on Earth and in the universe have produced only a small sample of the full menu of molecules and forms of matter, and consequently of the corresponding laws of physics they will have to obey.
Unfortunately, the laws of physics seemed to suggest otherwise.
The phenomena of physics are always expressed in terms of how one set of measurable numbers behaves when other sets of measurable numbers are held fixed or varied.
There’s a multitude of complex physics involved, and who knows how true-to-science the scene is, but getting the details right to successfully grab something in space certainly isn’t easy.
Sir Robert Peel congratulated the house upon the noble lord's aversion to Mr. Wakley's physic.
Either by physic forward or by clyster backward or both ways to get an easy and plentiful going to stool and breaking of wind.
So home to supper and to bed, being troubled to find myself so bound as I am, notwithstanding all the physic that I take.
The cow should be bled, and take a large dose of physic; then wash the udder as in caked bag.
Scott had some knowledge of surgery and physic; so had Will Hodges, who had at one time been a schoolmaster.
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