Physic
['fɪzɪk]
Definition
(n.) The art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the theory or practice of medicine.
(n.) A specific internal application for the cure or relief of sickness; a remedy for disease; a medicine.
(n.) Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic.
(n.) A physician.
(v. t.) To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge.
(v. t.) To work on as a remedy; to heal; to cure.
Checker: Percy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Drug, medicine, remedy, medicament, NOSTRUM.[2]. Cathartic, purge, purgative medicine.
v. Purge, drench, give physic to.
Checked by Gregory
Definition
n. the science of medicine: the art of healing: a medicine: (orig.) natural philosophy physics.—v.t. to give medicine to:—pr.p. phys′icking; pa.t. and pa.p. phys′icked.—ns. Physician (fi-zish′an) one skilled in the use of physic or the art of healing: one who prescribes remedies for diseases: a doctor.—ns. Physic′iancy post or office of physician; Physic′ianship; Phys′ic-nut,Barbadoes or Purging nut the seeds of Jatropha curcas.—Physic garden a botanical garden."
Typist: Paul
Examples
- The next day Mr. Gambit was told that Lydgate went about saying physic was of no use. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I like it better than your physic. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I'd ha' been glad to pison the beer myself, said the Jack, or put some rattling physic in it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But we were talking of physic. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You must have some physic. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- If physic had done harm to self and family, I should have found it out by this time. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Fortifying himself with this assurance, Sikes drained the glass to the bottom, and then, with many grumbling oaths, called for his physic. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Physic yourself to-morrow, Wegg,' said Mr Boffin, 'to be in order for next night. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But if thy brother of the bow To physic bind me fast, Grant that the old from me may go, For cure, to Dr. Last! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And of course I can't begin to study for law or physic now, when my father wants me to earn something. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You should take a physic, Pilar told him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Astronomers and geologists and those who study physics have been able to tell us something of the origin and history of the earth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He got a copy of Parker's School Philosophy, an elementary book on physics, and about every experiment in it he tried. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Physics and chemistry, as well as mathematics and astronomy, owe much in their development to t he Arabs. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Their ideas in physics and chemistry were the results of profound cogitation; it is wonderful that they did guess at atomic structure. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The facts and laws of physics, with the assistance of mathematical logic, never fail to furnish precious answers to such questions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Both Benjamin Franklin and Goethe were greatly interested in his work in physics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The first was to Lord Kelvin, the Nestor of physics in Europe, for his work in submarine-cable telegraphy and other scientific achievement. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In physics they invented the pendulum, and produced work on optics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The ancient Greek philosophy was divided into three great branches; physics, or natural philosophy; ethics, or moral philosophy; and logic. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Here he also resumed his earlier studies, and came to lecture on natural history and physics to all the great scholars of the day. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The most important occupations of today represent and depend upon applied mathematics, physics, and chemistry. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Hence arises a new branch of natural science, physiological psychology, or, as Fechner (1860), the disciple of Weber, called it, psycho-physics. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- For obviously it is to mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, anthropology, history, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The great steps forward have been made upon the true scientific foundation established by the discoveries and inventions in the fields of physics, chemistry and biology. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In the ancient philosophy, whatever was taught concerning the nature either of the human mind or of the Deity, made a part of the system of physics. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Typed by Emile