Physic meaning of word

English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• physick (obsolete)

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪzɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɪzɪk

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English phisik, from Latin physicus, from Ancient Greek φῠσῐκός (phusikós, “natural; physical”), from φύσις (phúsis, “origin, birth; nature, quality; form, shape; type, kind”), from φῠ́ω (phúō, “grow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to appear, become, rise up”).

Adjective[edit]

physic (comparative more physic, superlative most physic)

1. Relating to or concerning existent materials; physical.

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English fysike (noun) and phisiken, fisike (verb; from the noun), from Old French fisike (“natural science, art of healing”), from Latin physica (“study of nature”), from Ancient Greek φυσική (phusikḗ), feminine singular of φῠσῐκός (phusikós, “natural; physical”), see above.

Noun[edit]

physic (countable and uncountable, plural physics)

1. (archaic, countable) A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative.

   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi], page 79, column 2:

     I ſhould not thinke it ſtrange, for ’tis a phyſicke / That’s bitter, to ſweet end.
3. (archaic, uncountable) The art or profession of healing disease; medicine.
   • 1743, Stephen Hales, A Description of Ventilators p. xiii.

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

4. (archaic, uncountable) Natural philosophy; physics.
5. (obsolete) A physician.

Derived terms[edit]

• physician

Verb[edit]

physic (third-person singular simple present physics, present participle physicking, simple past and past participle physicked)

1. (transitive) To cure or heal.

   • 1637, Tho[mas] Heywood, “Ivpiter and Io”, in Pleasant Dialogues and Dramma’s, Selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. […], London: […] R. O[ulton] for R. H[earne], and are to be sold by Thomas Slater […], →OCLC, page 170:

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

2. (transitive) To administer medicine to, especially a purgative.

   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], lines 73-74:

     I will physic your rankness […]

   • 1987, Stephen King, The Tommyknockers:

     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!»

Anagrams[edit]

• scyphi

физический, естественный, лекарство, медицина, давать лекарство

прилагательное

- редк. физический, естественный

существительное ↓

глагол

- разг. давать снадобье, лекарство (особ. слабительное)
- редк. облегчать страдания

Словосочетания

physic phenomenon — физический явление; физический феномен  

Примеры с переводом

Возможные однокоренные слова

physical  — физический, материальный, телесный, медосмотр, медицинский осмотр
physician  — врач, медик, доктор, терапевт, лекарь, целитель, исцелитель
physicist  — физик
physics  — физика

Формы слова

noun
ед. ч.(singular): physic
мн. ч.(plural): physics

Skill in physic is a useful accomplishment in a minister and may be improved to more extensive usefulness and greater esteem among ❋ Unknown (1721)

_Douwa min, ând Sultana Ingleeza_, ( «physic from the English Sultana»,) is a sort of royal talisman which helps the medicine down as a bit of sugar taken with a child’s draught. ❋ James Richardson (1828)

It was not done by any might of their own, any skill they had in physic or surgery, nor any virtue in their word: the power they did it by was wholly derived from Christ. ❋ Unknown (1721)

A year’s additional training, carrying the bachelor’s degree, was offered to students who, having demonstrated a competent knowledge of Latin, mathematics, natural and experimental philosophy, and having served a sufficient apprenticeship to some reputable practitioner in physic, now completed a prescribed lecture curriculum, with attendance upon the practice of the Pennsylvania Hospital for one year. ❋ Unknown (1969)

Shortly I popped into the Chelsea Mansion — once the temporary home of Courtney Love and a luxury rental at $20,000 a month — to visit Roxanne Usleman Hulderman, their resident on-call physic to ask, «What awaits fashions future,» figuring this was just as effective as watching Ben Bernanke rattle on CNN. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The jatropha, also called the physic nut, grows quickly and needs little water or nurturing, reaching maturity after two years, and yielding small black seeds that are covered in light, white husks and which can be picked by hand. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Persons who throughout the whole twelve months are worldly, think it necessary to be godly at a time of straits: all moral and religious matters they regard as physic, which is to be taken, with aversion, when they are unwell: in a clergyman, a moralist, they see nothing but a doctor, whom they cannot soon enough get rid of. ❋ Unknown (1917)

— A tropical plant cultivated in many warm countries for the sake of its seeds, known as physic nuts. ❋ William Saunders (1861)

I know not in what esteem physic, which is so highly useful to life, was held at Carthage; or jurisprudence, so necessary to society. ❋ Charles Rollin (1701)

Jatropha Biodiesel is cultivated from jatropha curcas, also called physic nut. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Without physics, [you would] not be [reading] [urban dictionary] online. ❋ Intheflesh (2005)

Without physics [humans] could [fly], but, [alas], we are all its bitches ❋ Badusername99 (2011)

guuurl! [you do] physics? damn, now [aint] that [sexy]! ❋ Physics Playa (2006)

I wanted to be cool so I posted a [physics] problem on [UD]; too bad im so stupid idk what physics is so any [muon] can clearly disprove me. ❋ Caedin (2008)

«[It’s physics], [bitch]!» ❋ I’m An Ice Princess, Bitch (2012)

[I have no idea] why that [Immanuel Kant] book fell when I pushed it off my desk. It must just be [physics]. ❋ Sm19 (2005)

He’s [studying] physics. ❋ John Bonaccorsi (2007)

— Physics is [phun]!
— [Fo shizzle my nizzle]! ❋ Urban Dictionary (2004)

— [yo guy], [i cant] unnerstann that shit.
— thats cause its simple physics, [fool] ❋ Burgiller (2005)

I wanted to be able to [understand] the entirety of [the universe] so i did an [undergraduate degree] in physics ❋ DrFox777 (2010)