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 Phys·ic·al a.
 1. Of or pertaining to nature (as including all created existences); in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or relating to natural or material things, or to the bodily structure, as opposed to things mental, moral, spiritual, or imaginary; material; natural; as, armies and navies are the physical force of a nation; the body is the physical part of man.
    Labor, in the physical world, is . . . employed in putting objects in motion.   --J. S. Mill.
    A society sunk in ignorance, and ruled by mere physical force.   --Macaulay.
 2. Of or pertaining to physics, or natural philosophy; treating of, or relating to, the causes and connections of natural phenomena; as, physical science; physical laws. “Physical philosophy.”
 3. Perceptible through a bodily or material organization; cognizable by the senses; external; as, the physical, opposed to chemical, characters of a mineral.
 4. Of or pertaining to physic, or the art of medicine; medicinal; curative; healing; also, cathartic; purgative. [Obs.] “Physical herbs.”
 Is Brutus sick? and is it physical
 To walk unbraced, and suck up the humors
 Of the dank morning?   --Shak.
 Physical astronomy, that part of astronomy which treats of the causes of the celestial motions; specifically, that which treats of the motions resulting from universal gravitation.
 Physical education, training of the bodily organs and powers with a view to the promotion of health and vigor.
 Physical examination Med., an examination of the bodily condition of a person.
 Physical geography. See under Geography.
 Physical point, an indefinitely small portion of matter; a point conceived as being without extension, yet having physical properties, as weight, inertia, momentum, etc.; a material point.
 Physical signs Med., the objective signs of the bodily state afforded by a physical examination.
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 As·tron·o·my n.
 1. Astrology. [Obs.]
 Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck;
 And yet methinks I have astronomy.   --Shak.
 2. The science which treats of the celestial bodies, of their magnitudes, motions, distances, periods of revolution, eclipses, constitution, physical condition, and of the causes of their various phenomena.
 3. A treatise on, or text-book of, the science.
 Physical astronomy. See under Physical.
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