1. treating with medicine or a purgative; administering medical treatment
Usage: present participle of physic; archaic or literary

1. the act or process of administering medicine or medical treatment
Usage: archaic or literary

Examples

• The physician spent the morning physicking his patients with various remedies.
• Physicking the sick was a common practice in medieval times.
• She objected to the constant physicking prescribed by her doctor.
• The apothecary was skilled at physicking those afflicted with fever.
• Excessive physicking was believed to weaken the body's natural humors.