physic
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Is physic a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (archaic, countable) A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative.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."archaiccountable
2. (archaic, uncountable) The art or profession of healing disease; medicine.Examples: "...and thus draw out all the unwholesome Air and Stench, which does more harm than any Physick can repair."archaicuncountable
3. (archaic, uncountable) Natural philosophy; physics.Examples: "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."archaicuncountable
4. (obsolete) A physician.Examples: "Desire is death, which physic did except."countableobsoleteuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To cure or heal.Examples: "Wouldſt thou not haue ſome Bulchin from the herd / To phyſicke thee of this venereall itch?"transitive
2. (transitive) To administer medicine to, especially a purgative.Examples: "I will physic your rankness […]"; "When she had been a little girl - a very little girl - her mother had once cried at Anne in utter exasperation, "You're so contrary cheese'd physic ya!""transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary