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- English Word Physic Definition Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic.
- English Word Physic Definition A physician.
- English Word Physic Definition To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge.
- English Word Physic Definition To work on as a remedy; to heal; to cure.
- English Word Physical Definition Of or pertaining to nature (as including all created existences); in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or relating to natural or material things, or to the bodily structure, as opposed to things mental, moral, spiritual, or imaginary; material; natural; as, armies and navies are the physical force of a nation; the body is the physical part of man.
- English Word Physical Definition Of or pertaining to physics, or natural philosophy; treating of, or relating to, the causes and connections of natural phenomena; as, physical science; physical laws.
- English Word Physical Definition Perceptible through a bodily or material organization; cognizable by the senses; external; as, the physical, opposed to chemical, characters of a mineral.
- English Word Physical Definition Of or pertaining to physic, or the art of medicine; medicinal; curative; healing; also, cathartic; purgative.
- English Word Physically Definition In a physical manner; according to the laws of nature or physics; by physical force; not morally.
- English Word Physically Definition According to the rules of medicine.
- English Word Physiced Definition of Physic
- English Word Physician Definition A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine.
- English Word Physician Definition Hence, figuratively, one who ministers to moral diseases; as, a physician of the soul.
- English Word Physicianed Definition Licensed as a physician.
- English Word Physicism Definition The tendency of the mind toward, or its preoccupation with, physical phenomena; materialism in philosophy and religion.
- English Word Physicist Definition One versed in physics.
- English Word Physicist Definition A believer in the theory that the fundamental phenomena of life are to be explained upon purely chemical and physical principles; -- opposed to vitalist.
- English Word Physicking Definition of Physic
- English Word Physicking Definition p. pr. & vb. n. fr. Physic, v. t.
- English Word Physico- Definition A combining form, denoting relation to, or dependence upon, natural causes, or the science of physics.