| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | phys·ic |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  f z k |
| NOUN: | 1. A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic. 2. Archaic The art or profession of medicine. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: phys·icked, phys·ick·ing, phys·ics
1. To act on as a cathartic. 2. To cure or heal. 3. To treat with or as if with medicine. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English phisik, from Old French fisique, medical science, natural science, from Latin, natural science, from Greek phusik , feminine of phusikos, of nature, from phusis, nature. See bheu - in Appendix I.
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