Definition of physic

• n. - The art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the theory or practice of medicine.
• n. - A specific internal application for the cure or relief of sickness; a remedy for disease; a medicine.
• n. - Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic.
• n. - A physician.
• v. t. - To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge.
• v. t. - To work on as a remedy; to heal; to cure.