Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Physicking"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Physicking \Phys"ick*ing\,
p. pr. & vb. n. fr. {Physic}, v. t.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Physic \Phys"ic\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Physiced}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Physicking}.]
1. To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine
to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to
purge.
2. To work on as a remedy; to heal; to cure.
The labor we delight in physics pain. --Shak.
A mind diseased no remedy can physic. --Byron.
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