Though ‘physical’ has not dissociated itself from ‘physics,’ it has from ‘physic’ and ‘physician,’ being used now as simply the equivalent for ‘natural’ which the Greek language has supplied us; but it was not always so.
Is Brutus sick? and is it physical
To walk unbracéd and suck up the humours
Of the dank morning?
Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar, act ii. sc. 1.
Attalus, surnamed Philometer (to say, lover of his mother), would plant and set physical herbs, as helleborum.—North, Plutarch’s Lives, p. 739.
And for physic, he [Lord Bacon] did indeed live physically,[21] but not miserably.—Rawley, Life of Lord Bacon.
Placard. Formerly used often in the sense of a license or permission, the ‘placard’ being properly the broad tablet or board on which this, as well as other edicts and ordinances, was exposed.
Then for my voice I must (no choice)
Away of force, like posting horse,