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physic

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1. physic - Noun

2. physic - Adjective

3. physic - Verb

Meaning

A physician.

The art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the theory or practice of medicine.

A specific internal application for the cure or relief of sickness; a remedy for disease; a medicine.

Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic.

To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge.

To work on as a remedy; to heal; to cure.

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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health. Francis Bacon

A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, "He ails nothing," "It is because, sir," he replied, "I use none of your physic." Plutarch

In his later works Doesburg tried to destroy static expression by diagonal position of his lines. But in this way the feeling of physic equilibrium which is necessary to enjoy a work of art is lost. Piet Mondrian

The doctor seldom takes physic. Italian Proverb

No good doctor ever takes physic. Italian Proverb

Dear physic always does good, if not to the patient, at least to the apothecary. German Proverb

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