Meaning of Physic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative.
   archaic, countable
2. The art or profession of healing disease; medicine.
   archaic, uncountable
3. Natural philosophy; physics.
   archaic, uncountable
4. A physician.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Harke yee Lords, you ſee I haue giuen her Phiſicke, / And you muſt needs beſtovv her Funerall, […]”

“I ſhould not thinke it ſtrange, for 'tis a phyſicke / That's bitter, to ſweet end.”

“Nor can thy shame give physic to my grief.”

“Learn before thou speak, and use physick or ever thou be sick.”

“...and thus draw out all the unwholesome Air and Stench, which does more harm than any Physick can repair.”

“When I left Mr. Bates, I went down to my Father; where, by the Aſſiſtance of him and my Uncle John, and ſome other Relations, I got forty Pounds, and a Promiſe of thirty Pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden: there I ſtudied Phyſick two years and ſeven months, knowing it would be uſeful in long Voyages.”

“Desire is death, which physic did except.”

CEFR level