physic

Relating to or concerning existent materials; physical.

A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative.

Harke yee Lords, you ſee I haue giuen her Phiſicke, / And you muſt needs beſtovv her Funerall, […]

I ſhould not thinke it ſtrange, for 'tis a phyſicke / That's bitter, to ſweet end.

The art or profession of healing disease; medicine.

...and thus draw out all the unwholesome Air and Stench, which does more harm than any Physick can repair.

Natural philosophy; physics.

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.

A physician.

Desire is death, which physic did except.

To cure or heal.

Wouldſt thou not haue ſome Bulchin from the herd / To phyſicke thee of this venereall itch?

To administer medicine to, especially a purgative.

I will physic your rankness […]

When she had been a little girl - a very little girl - her mother had once cried at Anne in utter exasperation, "You're so contrary cheese'd physic ya!"