physic

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈfɪz.ɪk/    美 /ˈfɪz.ɪk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative. archaic,countable
    — Harke yee Lords, you ſee I haue giuen her Phiſicke, / And you muſt needs beſtovv her Funerall, […]
  2. The art or profession of healing disease; medicine. archaic,uncountable
    — ...and thus draw out all the unwholesome Air and Stench, which does more harm than any Physick can repair.
  3. Natural philosophy; physics. archaic,uncountable
    — When I left Mr. Bates, I went down to my Father; where, by the Aſſiſtance of him and my Uncle John, and ſome other Relations, I got forty Pounds, and a Promiſe of thirty Pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden: there I ſtudied Phyſick two years and ſeven months, knowing it would be uſeful in long Voyages.
  4. A physician. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — Desire is death, which physic did except.
动词 v.
  1. To cure or heal. transitive
    — Wouldſt thou not haue ſome Bulchin from the herd / To phyſicke thee of this venereall itch?
  2. To administer medicine to, especially a purgative. transitive
    — I will physic your rankness […]
形容词 adj.
  1. Relating to or concerning existent materials; physical.

词形变化

more physic comparative most physic superlative phisicke alternative physick alternative physics plural phisicke alternative physick alternative physics present,singular,third-person physicking participle,present physicked participle,past physicked past phisicke alternative physick alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
Culver's physic metaphysic nonphysic otophysic physically physic finger physic garden physician physicism physicker physicky physic nut

词源

词源 1
From Middle English phisik, from Latin physicus, from Ancient Greek φῠσῐκός (phŭsĭkós, “natural; physical”), from φύσις (phúsis, “origin, birth; nature, quality; form, shape; type, kind”), from φῠ́ω (phŭ́ō, “grow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to appear, become, rise up”).
词源 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.
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