Definition of "physicking" []

• Present participle of physic. (verb)

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• ""Supervising the butchering as well as the physicking, are ye now, mistress?" he asked mockingly."
• "My Lady had become quite adept at treating minor injuries and ailments, and my own skill at physicking when she was ill was already well established."
• "They fared, however, in this respect, like rash physicians, who commence by over-physicking a patient, until he is reduced to a state of weakness, from which cordials are afterwards unable to recover him."