physic

Meanings

Adjective

• Relating to or concerning existent materials; physical.

Noun

• A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative.
• The art or profession of healing disease; medicine.
• Natural philosophy; physics.
• A physician.

Verb

• To cure or heal.
• To administer medicine to, especially a purgative.

Origin

• From Middle English phisik, from Latin physicus, from Ancient Greek φῠσῐκός.
• From Middle English fysike and phisiken, fisike, from Old French fisike ("natural science, art of healing"), from Latin physica ("study of nature"), from Ancient Greek φυσική, feminine singular of φυσικός.