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physickal

physickal is the obsolete form of physical.

Meaning of physical

Adjective

physical (comparative more physical, superlative most physical)

  1. (obsolete) Pertaining to the field of medicine; medical.
  2. (obsolete) That practises medicine; pertaining to doctors, physicianly.
    • Her father was thrown from his horse, when his blood was in a very inflammatory state, and the bruises were very dangerous; his recovery was not expected by the physical tribe.1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction
  3. (obsolete) Medicinal; good for the health, curative, therapeutic.
    • Phisicall [translating φαρμακώδεις (pharmakṓdeis)] herbes, as Helleborum, Lingewort, or Beares foote.1579, Thomas North, translating Pliny, Parallel Lives
  4. Pertaining to the world as understood through the senses rather than the mind, having to do with the material world.
    • It's not so much a physical place as a state of mind.
  5. In accordance with the laws of nature; now specifically, pertaining to physics.
    • The substance has a number of interesting physical properties.
  6. Denoting a map showing natural features of the landscape (compare political).

See all 12 meanings of physical

Forms of physickal

comparativemore physickal
superlativemost physickal

Questions about physickal

What is physickal the obsolete form of?
Physickal is the obsolete form of physical.

Words near physickal in the dictionary

  1. physicianships
  2. physicism
  3. physicist
  4. physicists
  5. physick
  6. physickal
  7. physicke
  8. physicked
  9. physicker
  10. physickers
  11. physicking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: physickal (page history and authors); physical (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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