physic

physicadj詞源 1/ˈfɪz.ɪk/

• 1

  Relating to or concerning existent materials; physical.

physicnoun詞源 2/ˈfɪz.ɪk/

• 1

  archaicA medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative.

  • 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.
• 2

  archaicThe art or profession of healing disease; medicine.

  • ...and thus draw out all the unwholesome Air and Stench, which does more harm than any Physick can repair.
• 3

  archaicNatural philosophy; physics.

  • 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.
• 4

  obsoleteA physician.

  • Desire is death, which physic did except.

physicverb詞源 2/ˈfɪz.ɪk/

• 1

  To cure or heal.

  • Wouldſt thou not haue ſome Bulchin from the herd / To phyſicke thee of this venereall itch?
• 2

  To administer medicine to, especially a purgative.

  • 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!"