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- noun Plural form of
apothecary .
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Examples
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Accordingly when the doctor, as they call apothecaries, was to have given a name, "I gives a sentiment, gemmen! may all republicans be" gull "oteened!"
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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But the apothecaries were the most usual salesmen, and their shops and the ordinaries were the customary day meeting-places for the more fashionable smokers.
The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897
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With a willowy woman adorning its golden package, Pai You Guo, made in China, is marketed as a natural way to lose weight and is sold in Chinese apothecaries alongside bins of ginseng, slabs of shark's fin, and other traditional Chinese herbs and spices.
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For the purpose it set up new printing presses and imaginatively used retail outlets, such as apothecaries' shops, which had never previously been used for selling books.
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New units such as apothecaries and geomancers, abilities on several of the old units, new longevity spells, Huli Jing summon, new sprites, conscription more useful.
WorthPlaying.com - All about games! Rainier 2010
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Connecticut made it illegal to sell abortifacients (or at least illegal for "apothecaries" to sell them) in 1821, but that's not the same thing as having abortion illegal.
jillstanek.com 2008
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Connecticut made it illegal to sell abortifacients (or at least illegal for "apothecaries" to sell them) in 1821, but that's not the same thing as having abortion illegal.
jillstanek.com 2008
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Medical Journal_, January 29, 1898), "may be called the apothecaries 'of the body, secreting many important medicaments, much more active and more accurately representing its true wants than artificially administered drugs."
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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Our neighborhood in Wicker Park, just northwest of downtown, is a mix of Polish bakeries, Mexican apothecaries, and dilapidated brownstones with men who sit on stoops and sing as I pass by: Que bonito culo!
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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What we did know was that tigers were heading for oblivion, reduced by shrinking habitats and a longstanding fondness among Chinese apothecaries for exotic animal penises.
Lost Land of the Tiger; Unequal Opportunities; Excluded; Spooks; Seven Days Phil Hogan 2010
chained_bear commented on the word apothecaries
"In the seventeenth century there was a sharp increase in plantings of such novelties as sunflowers, nasturtiums, morning glories, passionflowers, dahlias, and petunias because horticultural enthusiasts now outnumbered the physicians and apothecaries who had dominated gardening before."
--Joyce Appleby, Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2013), p. 109-110
Interesting, since women were the ones who kept most gardens "before," but as in the culinary arts, where women do most of the cooking in the world, they are not considered chefs, so it is in this field, it seems.
December 28, 2016