Word Meaning

physic definition and meaning

n. The art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the theory or practice of medicine.
n. A specific internal application for the cure or relief of sickness; a remedy for disease; a medicine.
n. Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic.
n. A physician.
v. t. To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge.
v. t. To work on as a remedy; to heal; to cure.