Middle English Dictionary Entry
phisik adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | phisik adj. Also phisic, fisike. |
| Etymology | L physicus |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Medical.
Associated quotations
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)116a/a : To declare what ar nodacions comyng in þe flesh wiþ ycchyng..is forsoþ more phisic [Ch.(2): phisik; L physicum] þan sirurgic.
- a1500(a1450) Ashmole SSecr.(Ashm 396)20/3 : He made this boke..techyng..philosophik and phisik doctrine, pertenyng vnto lordes for kepyng of the helth of their bodies.
- a1500 As I walkyd vppon (Hnt HM 183)77 : Auaricia is an horribill sore..I askid a mastir off ffysyke lore How I myght make hyme dry and vanysh away.