physic
noun
[ ˈfɪzɪk ]
• medicinal drugs.
• "his servant's venture into selling physic"
physic
verb
• treat with a medicine.
• "he told Mrs Webb he had physicked himself"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French fisique ‘medicine’, from Latin physica, from Greek phusikē (epistēmē) ‘(knowledge) of nature’.
