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Definition of Physic
1. Noun. A purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels.
Specialized synonyms: Aloes, Bitter Aloes, Castor Oil, Epsom Salts, Laxative, Milk Of Magnesia, Rochelle Powder, Seidlitz Powder, Seidlitz Powders
Generic synonyms: Medicament, Medication, Medicinal Drug, Medicine
Derivative terms: Aperient, Cathartic, Purgative
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
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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.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Physic
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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