physic
📖 Definitions
noun
1. A medicine, especially one that acts as a laxative.
2. A doctor.
3. Medical science or the medical profession.
verb tr.
1. To act upon as a laxative.
2. To treat with, or as if with, a medicine.
3. To cure or heal.
💬 Usage Examples
“His reputation as a physic was worthless if he couldn’t truly heal.” David Walton; Quintessence; Tor; 2013. “Of Knadler Lake, about a mile long, [David] Love said, ‘That’s bitter water -- sodium sulphate.
It would physic you something awful.’” John McPhee; Rising from the Plains; Farrar, Straus, and Giroux; 1986.