different between physical vs nisus

English

Alternative forms

• physickal (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin physic?lis, from Latin physica (“study of nature”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (phusik?), feminine singular of ??????? (phusikós).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?f?z?k?l/

Adjective

physical (comparative more physical, superlative most physical)

1. Of medicine.
   1. (obsolete) Pertaining to the field of medicine; medical. [15th–19th c.]
   2. (obsolete) That practises medicine; pertaining to doctors, physicianly. [18th c.]
      • 1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary, Oxford 2009, p. 19:

        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.

   3. (obsolete) Medicinal; good for the health, curative, therapeutic. [16th–19th c.]
      • 1579, Thomas North, translating Pliny, Parallel Lives:

        Phisicall [transl. ??????????? (pharmak?deis)] herbes, as Helleborum, Lingewort, or Beares foote.
2. Of matter or nature.
   1. Pertaining to the world as understood through the senses rather than the mind; tangible, concrete; having to do with the material world. [from 16th c.]

      • Labour, then, in the physical world, is […] employed in putting objects in motion.

   2. In accordance with the laws of nature; now specifically, pertaining to physics. [from 16th c.]

   3. Denoting a map showing natural features of the landscape (compare political). [from 18th c.]
3. Of the human body.
   1. Having to do with the body as opposed to the mind; corporeal, bodily. [from 18th c.]
   2. Sexual, carnal. [from 18th c.]
   3. Involving bodily force or contact; vigorous, aggressive. [from 20th c.]

Antonyms

• mental, psychological; having to do with the mind viewed as distinct from body.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

physical (plural physicals)

1. Physical examination.

   Synonyms: checkup, check-up

2. (parapsychology) A physical manifestation of psychic origin, as through ectoplasmic solidification.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin n?sus (“pressure, exertion”).

Noun

nisus

1. A mental or physical effort to attain a specific goal; a striving.
   • 1992, J.G. Hart, The Person and the Common Life: Studies in a Husserlian Social Ethics, page 363,

     The godly personality of a higher order, as the telos of the nisus of moral categoriality, is the sensus plenior of the nisus to a universal communalization of perspectives.

   • 2006, Errol E. Harris, Reflections on the Problem of Consciousness, page 158,

     The immanent nisus to completion, therefore, drives the complex to the explication of its internal relations so that they become recognizable as such.

2. The periodic procreative desire manifested in the spring by birds, etc.
3. The contraction of the diaphragm and abdominal muscles to evacuate faeces or urine.
   • 1833, James O' Beirne, New Views on the Process of Defecation, and Their Application to the Pathology and Treatment of Diseases of the Stomach, Bowels, and Other Organs, quoted in 1833, John Johnson (editor), The Medico-Chirurgical Review, New Series: Volume 19 (Volume 23 of the Analytical Series), page 7,

     The evacuation of the rectum and bladder being completed, immediately the nisus ceases, the rectum and the sphincters return to their former state of contraction, the diaphragm reascends, carrying with it and restoring to their proper situations the liver, the stomach, the spleen, the small intestines, the cæcum, and the ascending, transverse and descending portions of the colon.

Anagrams

• Sunis, sinus

Estonian

Noun

nisus

1. inessive singular of nisu

Latin

Etymology

Perfect participle of n?tor

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ni?.sus/, [?ni?s??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ni.sus/, [?ni?s?us]

Participle

n?sus (feminine n?sa, neuter n?sum); first/second-declension participle

1. Alternative form of n?xus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Noun

n?sus m (genitive n?s?s); fourth declension

1. pressure (downward push)
2. exertion

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

References

• nisus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nisus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nisus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• nisus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• nisus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[2]
• nisus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nisus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray