Definition of Physic

1. Noun. A purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels.


Definition of Physic

1. n. The art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the theory or practice of medicine.

2. v. t. To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge.

Definition of Physic

1. Adjective. Relating to or concerning existent materials; physical. ¹

2. Noun. A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative. ¹

3. Noun. The art or profession of healing disease; medicine. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To cure or heal; to treat or administer medicine, especially to purge. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Physic

1. to treat with medicine [v -ICKED, -ICKING, -ICS]

Medical Definition of Physic

1. 1. The art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the theory or practice of medicine. "A doctor of physik." 2. A specific internal application for the cure or relief of sickness; a remedy for disease; a medicine. 3. Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic. 4. A physician. Physic nut, a small tropical American euphorbiaceous tree (Jatropha Curcas), and its seeds, which are well flavored, but contain a drastic oil which renders them dangerous if eaten in large quantities. Origin: OE. Phisike, fisike, OF. Phisique, F. Physique knowledge of nature, physics, L. Physica, physice, fr. Gr, fr. Natural, from nature, fr. To produce, grow, akin to E. Be. See Be, and cf. Physics, Physique. 1. To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, especially. A cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge. 2. To work on as a remedy; to heal; to cure. "The labour we delight in physics pain." (Shak) "A mind diseased no remedy can physic." (Byron) Origin: Physiced; Physicking. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Physic

physes
physeterids
physeteroids
physeters
physi-
physianthropy
physiatrician
physiatrics
physiatries
physiatrist
physiatrists
physiatry
physic (current term)
physic finger
physic fingers
physic nut
physical
physical ability
physical age
physical allergy
physical anthropology
physical attraction
physical attractiveness
physical body
physical break
physical breaks
physical change

Literary usage of Physic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1888)
"THE PSYCHO-physic LAW AND STAR MAGNITUDES. BY JOSEPH JASTROW. PH. D. The application of the psycho-physic law to the relation between the estimated and the ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1859)
"Lectures on the Principles and Practice of physic, delivered at King's ... IT may be confidently asserted that no work on the Practice of physic has ever ..."

3. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England: From the Norman Conquest Till by John Campbell Campbell (1849)
"His dislike Till a severe accident which he met with, he had con- to physic. ... his body to physic, nor his heart to cruelty, nor his hand to corruption. ..."

4. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1869)
"physic. WE likewise discover, in those early times, the origin of physic, the beginnings of which, as of all other arts and sciences, were very rude ..."

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