Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A scientist specializing in chemistry.
- n. Chiefly British A pharmacist.
- n. Obsolete An alchemist.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An alchemist.
- n. A person versed in chemistry; one whose business is to make chemical examinations or investigations, or who is engaged in the operations of applied chemistry.
- n. Loosely, one who deals in drugs and medicines.
- n. A degree conferred by some institutions upon the completion of a stated course in chemistry.
- n. Same as chemiater.
Wiktionary
- n. A person whose occupation specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.
- n. A pharmacist.
- n. A pharmacy.
- n. An alchemist.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a scientist who specializes in chemistry
- n. a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs
Etymologies
- Obsolete chimist, from New Latin chimista, from Medieval Latin alchymista, alchemist, from alchymia, alchemy; see alchemy.
Examples
“In professional circles I blunder through calling somebody a chemist is almost as insulting as calling them a butcher ......”
“The chemist is the successor to the alchemist; and in Wales we still call a chemist”
“But now there is an observer whose methods of observation are more refined than those of men who use their eye, even though it be aided by the microscope; a man who sees indirectly further than we can see directly — that is, the chemist; and the chemist took up this question, and his discovery was not less remarkable than that of the microscopist.”
“Indeed, he was still devoted to the study of chemistry, and had a laboratory of his own in which he used to shut himself up all day long, greatly to the annoyance of his mother, who had set her heart on his standing for Parliament and had a vague idea that a chemist was a person who made up prescriptions.”
“The domestic affairs of the chemist were a favourite subject of gossip, but sometimes his attainments came in for mention too; they did to-night, the cousin being in a garrulous mood.”
“The chemist was a tall man with a hook nose and black eyes that clinched like rivets.”
“The chemist was a mild little man, with a high forehead, round spectacles, a little red beak of a nose, and a weak grey beard.”
“The chemist was a worthy old creature with a white beard and solemn ways.”
“Indeed, he was still devoted to the study of chemistry, and had a laboratory of his own, in which he used to shut himself up all day long, greatly to the annoyance of his mother, who had set her heart on his standing for Parliament, and had a vague idea that a chemist was a person who made up prescriptions.”
“Indeed, he was still devoted to the study of chemistry, and had a laboratory of his own, in which he used to shut himself up all day long, greatly to the annoyance of his mother, who had set her heart on his standing for Parliament and had a vague idea that a chemist was a person who made up prescriptions.”
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chemi-, chemico-, chemo-
of or relating to drugs or chemicals
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Science
milosrdenstvi "Mind, they say, rules the world. But what rules the mind? The body. And the body (follow me closely here) lies at the mercy of the most omnipotent of all mortal potentates — the Chemist."
-- Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White Feb 10, 2010