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Of medicine.
1. (obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#PHYSICAL) Pertaining to the field of medicine; medical. [15th–19th c.]
2. (obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#PHYSICAL) That practises medicine; pertaining to doctors, physicianly. [18th c.]
  - 1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction‎:
    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.
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3. (obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#PHYSICAL) Medicinal; good for the health, curative, therapeutic. [16th–19th c.]
  - 1579, Thomas North, translating Pliny, Parallel Lives:
    Phisicall [translating φαρμακώδεις (pharmakṓdeis)] herbes, as Helleborum, Lingewort, or Beares foote.
  - 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
    Is Brutus sick? and is it physical / To walk unbraced, and suck up the humours / Of the dank morning?
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Of matter and nature.
1. Pertaining to the world as understood through the senses rather than the mind, having to do with the material world. [from 16th c.]
  Synonym: See Thesaurus:substantial
  - 1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC:
    Labour, then, in the physical world, is […] employed in putting objects in motion.
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  - 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8837, archived from the original on 8 March 2023, page 74:
    In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
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  It's not so much a physical place as a state of mind.Category:English terms with usage examples#PHYSICAL
2. In accordance with the laws of nature; now specifically, pertaining to physics. [from 16th c.]
  The substance has a number of interesting physical properties.Category:English terms with usage examples#PHYSICAL
  - 2012 January, Michael Riordan, “Tackling Infinity”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 30 April 2013, page 86:
    Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains.
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3. Denoting a map showing natural features of the landscape (compare political). [from 18th c.]
Of the human body.
1. Having to do with the body as opposed to the mind; corporeal, bodily. [from 18th c.]
  Insults can hurt a lot more than physical injuries.Category:English terms with usage examples#PHYSICAL
  
  Are you feeling any physical effects?Category:English terms with usage examples#PHYSICAL
  - 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
    A society sunk in ignorance, and ruled by mere physical force.
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  - 2018 June 25, James Roland, “What is Hypergonadism?”, in Healthline‎, archived from the original on 25 April 2025:
    In mild cases of hypergonadism prior to puberty, the onset of physical and mood changes may not be abnormally early or significant enough to cause any psychological or long-term physical complications.
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2. Sexual, carnal. [from 18th c.]
  to get physicalCategory:English terms with collocations#PHYSICAL
3. Involving bodily force or contact; vigorous, aggressive. [from 20th c.]
  This team plays a very physical game, so watch out.Category:English terms with usage examples#PHYSICAL
  - 2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club‎, archived from the original on 7 March 2022:
    Hardy is perfect. He’s physical and monosyllabic.
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Of a piece of media, existing as a tangible object instead of being digital.
There is just something so amazing about reading a physical book as compared to an e-book.Category:English terms with usage examples#PHYSICAL