1. A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic. 2.Archaic The art or profession of medicine.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
Inflected forms: phys·icked, phys·ick·ing, phys·ics 1. To act on as a cathartic. 2. To cure or heal. 3. To treat with or as if with medicine.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English phisik, from Old French fisique, medical science, natural science, from Latin, natural science, from Greek phusik, feminine of phusikos, of nature, from phusis, nature. See bheu- in Appendix I.
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, feminine of phusikos, of nature, from phusis, nature. See bheu
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