physic

Meaning

Adj

Relating to or concerning existent materials; physical.

Noun

1. A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative.
2. The art or profession of healing disease; medicine.
3. Natural philosophy; physics.
4. (obsolete) A physician.

Verb

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

Synonyms

purgative

aperient

cathartic

laxative

purge

healing

cure

care

therapy

treatment

doctor’s stuff

medicine

💊

dose

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfɪzɪk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: phisik

Inherited from Middle English: fysike

In summary

From Middle English phisik, from Latin physicus, from Ancient Greek φῠσῐκός (phusikós, “natural; physical”), from φύσις (phúsis, “origin, birth; nature, quality; form, shape; type, kind”), from φῠ́ω (phúō, “grow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to appear, become, rise up”).