PHYSIC

n. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

The art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the theory or practice of medicine. "A doctor of physik." Chaucer.

2.
n.

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

3.
n.

Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic.

4.
n.

A physician. [R.] Shak. Physic nut (Bot.), a small tropical American euphorbiaceous tree (Jatropha Curcas), and its seeds, which are well flavored, but contain a drastic oil which renders them dangerous if eaten in large quantities.

5.
v.

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

6.
v.

To work on as a remedy; to heal; to cure. The labor we delight in physics pain. Shak. A mind diseased no remedy can physic. Byron.

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