Word Definition

Physic

  1. A physician.
  2. To work on as a remedy; to heal; to cure.
  3. A specific internal application for the cure or relief of sickness; a remedy for disease; a medicine.
  4. Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic.
  5. To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge.
  6. The art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the theory or practice of medicine.

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