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  • noun Obsolete form of physician.

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Examples

  • Lastly, the 'physitian' declares that 'bodies are found in the caves of the _Grand Canaries_, in

    To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • It was inserted by Dr. Thomas Sprat in the 'Transactions of the Royal Society,' London, and was republished in John Ogilby's enormous folio [Footnote: The 'physitian' was Dr. Eden, an Englishman who visited Tenerife in 1662.

    To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • And because mention is made of it in mens wils and testaments, I warrant you there is none will set his hand to them, til the physitian hath given his last doome, and utterly forsaken him.

    That to Philosophise Is to Learne How to Die. 1909

  • The oldest description of this embalming is by a 'judicious and ingenious man who had lived twenty years in the island as a physitian and merchant.'

    To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • Being chiefly a translation of the works of that learned and renowned doctor, Lazarus Riverius, now living: councellor and physitian to the present King of France.

    Inventory of Robert Carter's Estate, November [1733] 1733

  • Though a bitter cold day, yet I rose, and though my pain and tenderness in my testicle remains a little, yet I do verily think that my pain yesterday was nothing else, and therefore I hope my disease of the stone may not return to me, but void itself in pissing, which God grant, but I will consult my physitian.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Though a bitter cold day, yet I rose, and though my pain and tenderness in my testicle remains a little, yet I do verily think that my pain yesterday was nothing else, and therefore I hope my disease of the stone may not return to me, but void itself in pissing, which God grant, but I will consult my physitian.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Though a bitter cold day, yet I rose, and though my pain and tenderness in my testicle remains a little, yet I do verily think that my pain yesterday was nothing else, and therefore I hope my disease of the stone may not return to me, but void itself in pissing, which God grant, but I will consult my physitian.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 34: March/April 1664-65 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Though a bitter cold day, yet I rose, and though my pain and tenderness in my testicle remains a little, yet I do verily think that my pain yesterday was nothing else, and therefore I hope my disease of the stone may not return to me, but void itself in pissing, which God grant, but I will consult my physitian.

    The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Mar/Apr 1664/65 Pepys, Samuel 1665

  • And because mention is made of it in mens wils and testaments, I warrant you there is none will set his hand to them, til the physitian hath given his last doome, and utterly forsaken him.

    Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562

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