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physic
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Definition:to treat with medicine
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Yes, and now you physic her and call in these quacks.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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MAM. I am pleased the glory of her sex should know,
This nook, here, of the Friars is no climate
For her to live obscurely in, to learn
Physic and surgery, for the constable's wife
Of some odd hundred in Essex; but come forth,
And taste the air of palaces; eat, drink
The toils of empirics, and their boasted practice;
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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"They put in with a stone two-gallon jar for some beer. I'd ha' been glad to pison the beer myself," said the Jack, "or put some rattling physic in it."
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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