Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that prepares and sells drugs and other medicines; a pharmacist.
- n. See pharmacy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who practises pharmacy; a skilled person who prepares drugs for medicinal uses and keeps them for sale; a pharmacist. In England and Ireland the term is now specifically applied to a member of an inferior branch of the medical profession, licensed, after examination by the Apothecaries' Company, to practise medicine as well as to sell and dispense drugs. In Scotland, however, as in the United States, an apothecary is simply a pharmacist qualified by examination and license to compound, sell, and dispense medicines. See
druggist .
Wiktionary
- n. now historical A person who makes and provides/sells drugs and/or medicines.
- n. nonstandard, now historical A drugstore or pharmacy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs
Etymologies
- From Old French apotecaire, from Medieval Latin apothecarius ("storekeeper"), from apotheca ("shop, store"), earlier Latin apotheca ("repository, storehouse, warehouse"), from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothēkē, "a repository, storehouse"), from ἀποτίθημι (apotithēmi, "to put away"), from ἀπό (apo, "away") (English apo-, PIE cognate to of) + τίθημι (tithēmi, "to put") (PIE cognate of English do). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English apotecarie, from Old French apotecaire and from Medieval Latin apothēcārius, both from Late Latin, clerk, from Latin apothēca, storehouse, from Greek apothēkē : apo-, away; see apo- + thēkē, receptacle; see dhē- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“He used the word apothecary instead of doctor on purpose, and, as he explained afterwards, used it “to insult him.””
“Hindoo pothukoor (whence our word apothecary) feeling my pulse and looking at me with an air of sagacity.”
“(whence our word apothecary) feeling my pulse and looking at me with an air of sagacity.”
“The rest of the errands were much like others he had run in the past, except for one small item; among the other items Cameron wanted from the apothecary was a remarkable quantity of laudanum, and for the first time since Paul had known him, a small amount of morphia.”
“It was — the government controlled it and the drugstores — and they were called apothecary shops carried tobacco.”
“The apothecary was a decently dressed young man with a kindly air and reasonably clean hands.”
“The fly in the ointment of the apothecary was a baby to you.”
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 10, 1892
“You see, Will" -- every body called the apothecary's clerk Will -- "we had a school and Sid kept it, and he licked the fellers, and they couldn't stand it.”
The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play
“The bitter aloes of the apothecary is the dried juice of the leaves Aloe vulgaris.”
“The apothecary was a coarse good-natured fellow, one of that class of ignorant men upon whose brains the dregs of”
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