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Definition: Physic |
PhysicNoun1. A purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "physic" was first used: sometime around 1300. (references) |
Synonyms: PhysicSynonyms: aperient (n), cathartic (n), purgative (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Remedy | Verb: apply a remedy; Noun: doctor, dose, physic, nurse, minister to, attend, dress the wounds, plaster; drain; prevent; relieve; palliate; restore; drench with physic; bleed, cup, let blood; manicure. |
Phr. aux grands maux les grands remedes; Dios que da la llaga da la medicina; para todo hay remedio sino para la muerte; temporis ars medicina fere est; " the remedy is worse than the disease "; " throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it ". | |
Medicine, physic, Galenicals, simples, drug, pharmaceutical, prescription, potion, draught, dose, pill, bolus, injection, infusion, drip, suppository, electuary; linctus, lincture; medicament; pharmacon. | |
Restoration | Redress, recure; cure, heal, remedy, doctor, physic, medicate; break of; bring round, set on one's legs. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Physic |
| English words defined with "physic": Barbados nuts ♦ Culver's physic ♦ Doctor's stuff ♦ Horse-drench ♦ Indian physic ♦ Jatropha curcus, Jatrophic ♦ Physic nut, Physiced, Physicking. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "physic": After Meat, Mustard ♦ Caleb Quotem ♦ Harry Soph ♦ Mummy ♦ QUACK ♦ U'niversity. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "physic": Physician, Physiognomy, Physique. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Love. Law. Physic. / Marks fec.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Palatable Physic / William Heath.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | The March of Physic.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Doctor Gallipot placing his Fortune at the feet of his Mistress. : Thro' Physic to the Dogs. / Rowlandson.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Daniel Bschehrer, Med. Dr. et Physic. Norimb.].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | "Physic" / Spy [pseud.].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Doctor In Law Or Physic, in Congregation Robes. / T. Uwins delt. J. Agar sculpt.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Doctor in Physic. / T. Uwins delt. J. Agar sculpt.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Japanese-American volunteers. Weight, height and chest measurements, all were taken in a simultaneous operation as AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] volunteers on Kauai, Hawaii, first island to begin induction into the new combat unit, underwent physic.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment. He is handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals. By means of the Mummy, mankind, it is said, Attests to the gods its respect for the dead. We plunder his tomb, be he sinner or saint, Distil him for physic and grind him for paint, Exhibit for money his poor, shrunken frame, And with levity flock to the scene of the shame. O, tell me, ye gods, for the use of my rhyme: For respecting the dead what's the limit of time? Scopas Brune |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Physic" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.51% of the time. "Physic" is used about 77 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.51% | 72 | 39,377 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.9% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Unclassified Items | 2.6% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 77 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "physic". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Rephael | N/A | Biblical | The physic or medicine of God |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "physic": Culvers physic ♦ Culver's physic ♦ Indian physic ♦ physic nut ♦ take physic. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "physic": kitchen-physic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
free physic reading | 73 | hyper physic | 4 |
physic | 72 | physic spells | 4 |
physic reading | 48 | physic regent | 4 |
pet physic | 21 | education physic statistic | 4 |
audio physic | 18 | audio physic spark | 4 |
physic power | 14 | equation physic | 4 |
free physic | 14 | experiment physic | 4 |
education math physic us | 13 | physic singing | 3 |
physic ability | 11 | physic shampoo | 3 |
free online physic reading | 9 | physic statistic student | 3 |
enrollment physic student | 7 | chat free physic | 3 |
physic sylvia brown | 7 | hair physic product | 3 |
chelsea garden physic | 6 | physic ron | 3 |
edwards john physic | 6 | hotline physic | 3 |
physic test | 6 | classroom physic | 3 |
physic medium | 6 | become physic | 3 |
physic reader | 5 | physic science | 3 |
fair physic | 4 | advice free physic | 2 |
formula physic | 4 | ultrasound physic | 2 |
chat physic | 4 | free online physic | 2 |
law physic | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "physic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shëroj (cure, heal, remedy), mjekësi (medicine), ilaç (cure, drug, healer, medicament, medicine, medicines, potion, prescription, remedy, troche), i jap ilaç (drench), bar (bar, brasserie, cure, drug, gin mill, grass, herb, herbage, local, medicament, medicine, pasturage, pasture, pub, saloon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | цяр (cure), церя (balsam, cure, heal, treat for), очистително (cathartic, purgative, salts), медицина (medicine), лечение (cure, healing, medication, prescription, treatment), давам очистително. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | léèit (cure, heal, medicate, medicine, nurse, treat), dávat lék. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فیزیک (Physics), مسهل دادن , مسهل (Cathartic, Purgative, Purge), طب (Medicine), شفادادن (Cure, Heal, Leech, Medicate, Mend), دوادادن (Dose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | physikalisch (physical, physically), Abführmittel (aperient, cathartic, laxative, purgative, purge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καθάρσιο, ιατρικό (medicine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | orvostudomány (medicine), orvosol (physicked, redress, remedy, to help, to make good, to physic, to rectify, to redress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | obat urus-urus (calomel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lheeys (treatment), jannoo lheeys er (doctor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ysicphay sub-reino, remédios (medicines, remedies), remédio (cure, curing, drug, help, medicaster, medicine, pharmaceutical, redress, relief, remedy, salve), medicina (leek, medicine, practice of medicine), droga (chaff, doping, drug, nostrum, shebang, tripe), ciência médica, arte de curar. (various references) trata (argue, attend, back a bill, banquet, cover, deal, discourse, discuss, doctor, entertain, handle, negotiate, nurse, regale, serve, style, treat, use, work), medicinã (medicine), medicament (drug, medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical), leac (cure, help, medicine, remedy). (various references) лекарство (cure, decongestant, drug, medicament, medicine, preparation, remedy). (various references) urchasg. (various references) purgativni, purgativ (cathartic, laxative), medicina (medicine). (various references) remedio (diagnosis, medicament, redress, remedy), medicamento (drug, medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical). (various references) medicin (drug, medication, medicine, pharmaceutical), lindra (abate, alleviate, appease, assuage, ease, mitigate, palliate, relieve, salve, soothe), läkekonst, ge laxermedel, behandla med medicin. (various references) tedavi etmek (cleanse, cure, doctor, nurse, remedy, take, treat), tıp (aesculapian, medicine, medico-), ilaç vermek (administer a medicine, drug, medicate, medicine), ilaç (ball, curative, cure, drug, medicament, medicine, pill, remedy), doktorluk (doctoral, medicine, profession of a doctor). (various references) фізичний (bodily, carnal, corporeal, natural, physical), медицина (medicine), ліки (cure, drug, medicament, pharmacy, preparation, remedy), проносне (aperient, cathartic, depletive, evacuant, laxative, purgative, purge), природний (artless, careless, connatural, elemental, inbred, indigenous, matter of course, native, natural, radical, unartful, unlabored, unlaboured, untaught, untutored). (various references) thuật điều trị. (various references) ffisigwriaeth (medicine), ffisig (medicine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | physike episteme. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | phisike. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "physic": physical, physicalism, physicalisms, physicalist, physicalistic, physicalists, physicalities, physicality, physically, physicalness, physicalnesses, physicals, physician, physicians, physicist, physicists, physicked, physicking, physicochemical, physicochemically, physics. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "physic": metaphysic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "physic": antimetaphysical, astrophysical, astrophysically, astrophysicist, astrophysicists, astrophysics, biophysical, biophysicist, biophysicists, biophysics, geophysical, geophysically, geophysicist, geophysicists, geophysics, hyperphysical, metaphysical, metaphysically, metaphysician, metaphysicians, metaphysics, microphysical, microphysically, microphysics, nonphysical, nonphysician, nonphysicians, psychophysical, psychophysically, psychophysicist, psychophysicists, psychophysics, superphysical, ultraphysical. (additional references) | |
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"Physic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fidic, fisic, hysic, pfysic, phasic, philic, phisic, phistiki, phsic, phsyic, phsyics, Phusis, phychic, phycic, phyric, Physa, physc, physci, physcic, physi, Physica, physick, physicl, physik, physike, physis, physog, physyic, pshycic, pshyic, pshysic, psyhic, psysic, pysic, Thysia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: scyphi. | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-p-s-y" | |
-1 letter: chips, psych, spicy. | |
-2 letters: chip, chis, hips, hyps, ichs, phis, pics, pish, pyic, ship, spic, syph, yips. | |
-3 letters: chi, cis, hic, hip, his, hyp, ich, icy, phi, pic, pis, psi, shy, sic, sip, spy, yip. | |
-4 letters: hi, is, pi, sh, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-p-s-y" | |
+1 letter: physics, psychic, sylphic. | |
+2 letters: diptychs, physical, psychics, psyching, pyrrhics, sphygmic, spinachy. | |
+3 letters: dysphasic, dysphoric, hypnotics, hypocrisy, lynchpins, physicals, physician, physicist, physicked, psychical, psychosis, psychotic, puckishly, speechify, symphonic, triptychs. | |
+4 letters: biophysics, cheapishly, copyrights, dysphasics, dystrophic, emphysemic, geophysics, hypersonic, hypocorism, hypocrites, hypostatic, lymphatics, mesophytic, metaphysic, mycophiles, physically, physicians, physicists, physicking, picayunish, polyphasic, psychiatry, psychotics, rhinoscopy, sociopathy, sphericity, syphilitic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 68 79 73 69 63 |
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