Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete aphetic form of
apothecary .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An apothecary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
apothecary .
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Examples
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She cost me a mort of money to the potecary before she went off.
Camilla 2008
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They are gentlewomen; and their chemist is not a chemist, but an apothecary; pronounced potecary.
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They are gentlewomen; and their chemist is not a chemist, but an apothecary; pronounced potecary.
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She cost me a mort of money to the potecary before she went off.
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And here you must observe to know in what state tobacco is in town, better than the merchants, and to discourse of the potecaries where it is to be sold as readily as the potecary himself. "
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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Chaucer’s ‘potecary’ has given way to a more Greek formation
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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