physic

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physic healing art, medicine XIII; †natural science XIV; medicinal preparation, medicine XVI. ME. fisike — OF. fisique medicine (mod. physique natural science, now physics) — L. physica, -ē — Gr. phusikḗ, sb. use of fem. of phusikós, f. phúsis nature; see -IC.
So physic adj. †medical, medicinal XV; physical, natural XVI. physical medical, medicinal XV; natural, material XVI; pert. to physics; bodily, corporeal XVIII. — medL. physicālis, physicist XIX. physics natural science XVI; science that treats of matter and energy XVIII; rendering L. n. pl. physica — Gr. tà phusiká title of Aristotle's physical treatises.

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