Definition of "physic" [phys•ic]

• A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic. (noun)
• Archaic The art or profession of medicine. (noun)
• To act on as a cathartic. (verb-transitive)
• To cure or heal. (verb-transitive)
• To treat with or as if with medicine. (verb-transitive)

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• "Skill in physic is a useful accomplishment in a minister and may be improved to more extensive usefulness and greater esteem among"
• "_Douwa min, ând Sultana Ingleeza_, ( "physic from the English Sultana",) is a sort of royal talisman which helps the medicine down as a bit of sugar taken with a child's draught."
• "It was not done by any might of their own, any skill they had in physic or surgery, nor any virtue in their word: the power they did it by was wholly derived from Christ."