physic

名词 physic:

1. a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels
   同义词：purgative, cathartic, aperient

1. That a doctor shall be able to physic any disease is a misconception.
   认为医生应该能医治任何疾病的观念是错误的。
2. He tutored the child in physics.
   他给这小孩辅导物理。
3. Temperance is the best physic.
   节欲是灵丹妙药。

phys.ic

n.（名词）
A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic.
药，药剂：药或药剂，尤指泻药
Archaic The art or profession of medicine.
【古语】 医术，医业，医学：有关医学的技术和专业
v.tr.（及物动词）
phys.icked,phys.ick.ing,phys.ics
To act on as a cathartic.
使通便，给…服泻药
To cure or heal.
治好，治愈
To treat with or as if with medicine.
给…用药；医治

来源：
Middle English phisik
中古英语 phisik
from Old French fisique [medical science, natural science]
源自 古法语 fisique [医学，自然科学]
from Latin [natural science]
源自 拉丁语 [自然科学]
from Greek phusikô [feminine of] phusikos [of nature]
源自 希腊语 phusikô [] phusikos的阴性词 [自然的]
from phusis [nature] * see bheu…-
源自 phusis [自然] *参见 bheu…-