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Definition of physic in English: physicnounPlural physics ˈfɪzɪkˈfɪzɪk mass nounarchaic 1Medicinal drugs. his servant's venture into selling physic count noun a physic for wives to give to impotent husbands Example sentencesExamples - He does not know what the ingredients of the physic were, but wonders whether it might have been brimstone and treacle, which, he says, was a common concoction among the home-made remedies of his father's younger days.
- Like the Skimmington riders, he employs his costume and spectacle as a kind of physic, though his intentions are to minister to himself rather than the community.
- Hark ye, lords; ye see I have given her physic.
- The case of the lady was in the other extreme from that of her husband, for as he was past all the assistance of physic, so in reality she required none.
- Lear cries out, ‘Take physic Pomp, expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.’
Synonyms medicine, medical drug, medication, medicament - 1.1 The art of healing.
he was absorbed in all aspects of the study of physic and the human body Example sentencesExamples - Laurent Joubert directed his wrath against those who dared to trespass into the realms of medicine, despite an ignorance of physic.
- Now and then a man may arise among us who in any calling, whether it be in law, in physic, in religious teaching, in art, or literature, may in his professional enthusiasm utterly disregard money.
- The Tuatha fought to win the land from the Fomorians and they were helped by their god of medicine and physic, Diancecht.
- In theory, but seldom in practice, their supposedly superior knowledge gave them a monopoly over the practice of physic and the authority to supervise the work of surgeons.
- He devoted much of his time to studying medicine, and in 1670 was granted a licence to practise physic.
verbphysics, physicking, physicked ˈfɪzɪkˈfɪzɪk [with object]archaic Treat with a medicine. he told Mrs Webb he had physicked himself Example sentencesExamples - Before he can physic the evil of Claudius he is himself dying; only then does he force Claudius to feel the potency of his own poisons.
- The school nurse dosed and physicked them savagely for months.
- And he told us, with great humour, that when he was wanted to bleed the prince, or physic any of his people, he was generally found lying on his back, in bed, reading the newspapers, or making fancy sketches in pencil, and couldn't come.
Origin Middle English: from Old French fisique 'medicine', from Latin physica, from Greek phusikē (epistēmē) '(knowledge) of nature'. Definition of physic in US English: physicnounˈfɪzɪkˈfizik archaic 1Medicine, especially a cathartic. his servant's venture into selling physic count noun a physic for wives to give to impotent husbands Example sentencesExamples - Hark ye, lords; ye see I have given her physic.
- Like the Skimmington riders, he employs his costume and spectacle as a kind of physic, though his intentions are to minister to himself rather than the community.
- The case of the lady was in the other extreme from that of her husband, for as he was past all the assistance of physic, so in reality she required none.
- He does not know what the ingredients of the physic were, but wonders whether it might have been brimstone and treacle, which, he says, was a common concoction among the home-made remedies of his father's younger days.
- Lear cries out, ‘Take physic Pomp, expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.’
Synonyms medicine, medical drug, medication, medicament - 1.1 The art of healing.
he was absorbed in all aspects of the study of physic and the human body Example sentencesExamples - Now and then a man may arise among us who in any calling, whether it be in law, in physic, in religious teaching, in art, or literature, may in his professional enthusiasm utterly disregard money.
- Laurent Joubert directed his wrath against those who dared to trespass into the realms of medicine, despite an ignorance of physic.
- He devoted much of his time to studying medicine, and in 1670 was granted a licence to practise physic.
- The Tuatha fought to win the land from the Fomorians and they were helped by their god of medicine and physic, Diancecht.
- In theory, but seldom in practice, their supposedly superior knowledge gave them a monopoly over the practice of physic and the authority to supervise the work of surgeons.
verbˈfɪzɪkˈfizik [with object]archaic Treat with a medicine. he told Mrs. Webb he had physicked himself Example sentencesExamples - And he told us, with great humour, that when he was wanted to bleed the prince, or physic any of his people, he was generally found lying on his back, in bed, reading the newspapers, or making fancy sketches in pencil, and couldn't come.
- Before he can physic the evil of Claudius he is himself dying; only then does he force Claudius to feel the potency of his own poisons.
- The school nurse dosed and physicked them savagely for months.
Origin Middle English: from Old French fisique ‘medicine’, from Latin physica, from Greek phusikē (epistēmē) ‘(knowledge) of nature’. |