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n. - A purging medicine.

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Usage examples (33)
  • Skill in physic is a useful accomplishment in a minister and may be improved to more extensive usefulness and greater esteem among
  • Jatropha Biodiesel is cultivated from jatropha curcas, also called physic nut.
  • -- A tropical plant cultivated in many warm countries for the sake of its seeds, known as physic nuts.
  • I know not in what esteem physic, which is so highly useful to life, was held at Carthage; or jurisprudence, so necessary to society.
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