Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Physic \Phys"ic\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Physiced}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Physicking}.]
   1. To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine
      to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to
      purge.

   2. To work on as a remedy; to heal; to cure.

            The labor we delight in physics pain. --Shak.

            A mind diseased no remedy can physic. --Byron.