Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to physic
Participle: physicked
Gerund: physicking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | physic |
| you | physic |
| he;she;it | physics |
| we | physic |
| you | physic |
| they | physic |
Perfect
| I | have physicked |
| you | have physicked |
| he;she;it | has physicked |
| we | have physicked |
| you | have physicked |
| they | have physicked |
Past
| I | physicked |
| you | physicked |
| he;she;it | physicked |
| we | physicked |
| you | physicked |
| they | physicked |
Pluperfect
| I | had physicked |
| you | had physicked |
| he;she;it | had physicked |
| we | had physicked |
| you | had physicked |
| they | had physicked |
Future
| I | will physic |
| you | will physic |
| he;she;it | will physic |
| we | will physic |
| you | will physic |
| they | will physic |
Future Perfect
| I | will have physicked |
| you | will have physicked |
| he;she;it | will have physicked |
| we | will have physicked |
| you | will have physicked |
| they | will have physicked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | physic |
| you | physic |
| he;she;it | physic |
| we | physic |
| you | physic |
| they | physic |
Perfect
| I | have physicked |
| you | have physicked |
| he;she;it | have physicked |
| we | have physicked |
| you | have physicked |
| they | have physicked |
Imperfect
| I | physicked |
| you | physicked |
| he;she;it | physicked |
| we | physicked |
| you | physicked |
| they | physicked |
Pluperfect
| I | had physicked |
| you | had physicked |
| he;she;it | had physicked |
| we | had physicked |
| you | had physicked |
| they | had physicked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would physic |
| you | would physic |
| he;she;it | would physic |
| we | would physic |
| you | would physic |
| they | would physic |
Perfect
| I | would have physicked |
| you | would have physicked |
| he;she;it | would have physicked |
| we | would have physicked |
| you | would have physicked |
| they | would have physicked |
Imperative
| you | physic |
| we | Let's physic |
| you | physic |
Verbs conjugated like 'physic'
bivouac,
critic,
fabric,
frolic,
havoc,
limbec,
mimic,
physic,
picnic,
prognostic,
rollic,
rubric,
traffic,
zinc,
Verbs similar to 'physic'
physick,
payse,
petsit,
phase,
phaser,
phish,
picnic,
pigsit,
posit,
poyse,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1297, "art of healing, medical science," also "natural science" (c.1300), from O.Fr. fisike "natural science, art of healing" (12c.), from L. physica (fem. sing.) "study of nature," from Gk. physike episteme "knowledge of nature," from fem. of physikos "pertaining to nature," from physis "nature," from phyein "to bring forth, produce, make to grow" (cf. phyton "growth, plant," phyle "tribe, race," phyma "a growth, tumor") from PIE base *bheu- "to be exist, grow" (cf. O.E. beon "to be," see be). Especially in Gk. ta physika, lit. "the natural things," name of Aristotle's treatise on nature. The verb meaning "to dose with medicine" is attested from 1377.
2. From Middle English fysike (noun) and phisiken, fisike (verb; from the noun), from Old French fisike (“natural science, art of healing”), from Latin physica (“study of nature”), from Ancient Greek φυσική (phusikḗ), feminine singular of φῠσῐκός (phŭsĭkós, “natural; physical”), see above.
Sample Sentences
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Wouldſt thou not haue ſome Bulchin from the herd / To phyſicke thee of this venereall itch? [1637, Tho[mas] Heywood, “Ivpiter and Io”, in Pleasant Dialogues and Dramma’s, Selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. […], London: […] R. O[ulton] for R. H[earne], and are to be sold by Thomas Slater […], →OCLC, page 170:]
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I will physic your rankness […] [c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], lines 73-74:]
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When she had been a little girl - a very little girl - her mother had once cried at Anne in utter exasperation, "You're so contrary cheese'd physic ya!" [1987, Stephen King, The Tommyknockers:]