Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
physic .
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Examples
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Doctour, they believed that "gold in phisike is a cordial."
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Cordial, gold in phisike is a, 2. to the soul, 222.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862
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Examples may be taken out of Policians oracio [n]/made to the laude of histories -- And two oracions of Erasm [us]/one to the laude of phisike/and an other to the laude of matrimony.
The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke Leonard Cox 1528
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"I would not have you take too much phisike for it doth always make me worse; and I think it will doe the like with you.
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