Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PHYS'IC
PHYS'IC, n. [s as z. Gr. φυσικη, from φυσις, nature; φυω, to produce.]
- The art of healing diseases. This is now generally called medicine. Encyc.
- Medicines; remedies for diseases. We desire physic only for the sake of health. Hooker.
- In popular language, a medicine that purges; a purge; a cathartic. [In technical and elegant language this sense is not used.]
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