PHYSIC

noun a physician.

2. physic ·noun specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic.

3. physic ·vt to work on as a remedy; to heal; to cure.

4. physic ·noun the art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the theory or practice of medicine.

5. physic ·noun a specific internal application for the cure or relief of sickness; a remedy for disease; a medicine.

6. physic ·vt to treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, ·esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge.