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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Physic  \Phys"ic\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Physiced};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Physicking}.] 
  1.  To  treat  with  physic  or  medicine;  to  administer  medicine 
  to  esp.  a  cathartic;  to  operate  on  as  a  cathartic;  to 
  purge. 
 
  2.  To  work  on  as  a  remedy;  to  heal;  to  cure. 
 
  The  labor  we  delight  in  physics  pain.  --Shak. 
 
  A  mind  diseased  no  remedy  can  physic.  --Byron. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Physic  \Phys"ic\,  n.  [OE.  phisike  fisike  OF  phisique,  F. 
  physique  knowledge  of  nature,  physics,  L.  physica,  physice, 
  fr  Gr  ?,  fr  fysiko`s  natural,  from  fy`sis  nature,  fr  ?  to 
  produce,  grow,  akin  to  E.  be  See  {Be},  and  cf  {Physics}, 
  {Physique}.] 
  1.  The  art  of  healing  diseases;  the  science  of  medicine;  the 
  theory  or  practice  of  medicine. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  physic 
  n  :  a  purging  medicine;  stimulates  evacuation  of  the  bowels 
  [syn:  {purgative},  {cathartic},  {laxative},  {aperient}]




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