Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A book containing an official list of medicinal drugs together with articles on their preparation and use.
- n. A collection or stock of drugs.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A book of formulæ or directions for the preparation, etc., of medicines, generally published by authority. The United States Pharmacopœia is revised decennially by delegates in national convention, not more than three each from incorporated medical colleges, incorporated colleges of pharmacy, incorporated pharmaceutical societies, the American Medical Association, and the American Pharmaceutical Association, and not exceeding three each appointed by the surgeon-general of the army, the surgeon-general of the navy, and the surgeon-general of the Marine Hospital. This convention met last in Washington in May, 1890.
- n. A chemical laboratory.
- n. A collection of drugs.
Wiktionary
- n. An official book describing medicines or other pharmacological substances, especially their use, preparation, and regulation.
- n. A collection of drugs.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A book or treatise describing the drugs, preparations, etc., used in medicine; especially, one that is issued by official authority and considered as an authoritative standard.
- n. obsolete A chemical laboratory.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (pharmacology) a book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation
- n. a collection or stock of drugs
Etymologies
- From French pharmacopée and post-classical Latin pharmacopoeia, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek φαρμακοποιία (pharmakopoiia, "preparation of drugs"). (Wiktionary)
- New Latin, from Greek pharmakopoiiā, preparation of drugs, from pharmakopoios, preparing drugs : pharmako-, pharmaco- + poiein, to make; see kwei-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“He supported the Cuban idea of establishing regional Latin American pharmacopoeia so as to give the best sources of medicinal plants.”
“And I learnt that the only emetic known to the Albanian pharmacopoeia is human excrement and water – given in all cases of supposed poisoning; and that the remedy for dipsomania is the same, mixed with rakia.”
“Presumably both have magnets which would be affected while Justine's trippy, electric hand-trails are perhaps more evidence of Von Trier's recent episode in pharmacopoeia, perhaps while watching the wood-spirits in Avatar?”
“By the time they get their long white coats and stethoscopes they will have sampled just about every item in the Physician's Desk Reference pharmacopoeia—and then some.”
“And cannabis was in the American pharmacopoeia until 1941 IIRC.”
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
“Genentech imagined leveraging this technology of genes to develop a pharmacopoeia of novel drugs.”
“With vincristine added to the pharmacopoeia, leukemia researchers found themselves facing the paradox of excess: how might one take four independently active drugs—methotrexate, prednisone, 6-MP, and vincristine—and stitch them together into an effective regimen?”
“Recently, African knowledge and indigenous pharmacopoeia have begun to catch the attention of corporations and product developers.”
“Li Shizhen 1518–93 was the author of the premier pharmacopoeia for Chinese traditional medicine, the Bencao Gangmu, which listed more than 1,800 treatments.”
“Stallholders, restaurants, and chemists competed to offer the most unusual wildlife dishes and medicines from the traditional pharmacopoeia described in the previous chapter.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pharmacopoeia’.
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Old Pharmacy, etc.
This is not an Aubrey/Maturin list.
This is not an Aubrey/Maturin list.
This is not an Aubrey/Maturin list.
There. I think I've convinced myself.
(Of course...asafetida, Cinchona, Peruvian bark, Jesuit's bark, mithridate, aqua, bark, lard, electuary, gentian, diatessaron, myrrh and 110 more...
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Words with Four Consecutive Vowels
This oughta be a short list, eh?
queue, queuing, homoiousian, miaou, onomatopoeia, hawaiian, iroquoian, kauai, kilauea, longueuil, louie, montesquieu and 58 more...
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four vowels in a row
aqueous, nonaqueous, subaqueous, terraqueous, hawaiian, obsequious, onomatopoeia, pharmacopoeia, queue, queuer, miaou, sequoia and 24 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Collections
Have I made this list before? Has someone else collected these words together? I can't remember, so I'm just going to start storing some things here.
collection, omnium-gatherum, sylloge, antiphonary, anthology, bestiary, cartulary, dossier, sampler, assortment, variety, hodgepodge and 65 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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Good Words
fenestering, cetic, immanent, quickening, archetypal, shibboleth, soma, wetware, heritable, Apotheosis, halcyon, cellar door and 482 more...
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Alaric's Words
chelation, bradykinetic, twelfth, dank, kulak, oneiric, cathexis, yonder, quern, lissome, naiad, krakatoan and 124 more...
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mccaff's Words
schadenfreude, defenestration, monogamous, epipsychidion, chintz, befall, brouhaha, shenanigans, hooligans, lambasted, servitude, portcullis and 113 more...
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Vanity Fair
sunshiny, equipage, wherry, affidavit, gimcracks, nabobs, palanquin, toxophilite, psha, superabundant, pomatums, finikin and 128 more...
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Collage's Words
subtle, calamity, impale, qat, painterly, piebald, surly, nihilistic, repine, slake, larder, sepulchre and 349 more...
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miscellanea
antimacassar, snootful, sessile, glagolitic, marrowsky, farrago, keel, calumny, rheum, talisman, tally, awry and 508 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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semiotics, behemothic, resplendent, allegiant, visceral, ratiocination, promontory, amaranthine, pharmacopoeia, dichotomy, haematomesis, uxorios and 157 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, P
pellucid, pertain, pampas, prate, pinecone, philistine, pantocrator, papaverine, postmeridian, potlatch, pharology, pinniped and 622 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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