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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

APOTH'ECARY, n. [L. and Gr. apotheca, a repository, from to deposit or lay aside, or from a chest.]
1. One who practices pharmacy; one who prepares drugs for medicinal uses, and keeps them for sale. In England, apothecaries are obliged to prepare medicines according to the formulas prescribed by the college of physicians, and are liable to have their shops visited by the censors of the college, who have power to destroy medicines which are not good.
2. In the middle ages, an apothecary was the keeper of any shop or warehouse; and an officer appointed to take charge of a magazine.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs [syn: pharmacist, druggist, chemist, apothecary, pill pusher, pill roller]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -caries) Etymology: Middle English apothecarie, from Medieval Latin apothecarius, from Late Latin, shopkeeper, from Latin apotheca storehouse, from Greek apoth?k?, from apotithenai to put away, from apo- + tithenai to put — more at do Date: 14th century 1. one who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes 2. pharmacy

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) archaic a chemist licensed to dispense medicines and drugs. Phrases and idioms: apothecaries' measure (or weight) Brit. units of weight and liquid volume formerly used in pharmacy. Usage: 12 ounces = one pound; 20 fluid ounces = one pint. Etymology: ME f. OF apotecaire f. LL apothecarius f. L apotheca f. Gk apotheke storehouse

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Apothecary A*poth"e*ca*ry, n.; pl. Apothecaries. [OE. apotecarie, fr. LL. apothecarius, fr. L. apotheca storehouse, Gr. apo, fr. ? to put away; ? from + ? to put: cf. F. apothicaire, OF. apotecaire. See Thesis.] One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes. Note: In England an apothecary is one of a privileged class of practitioners -- a kind of sub-physician. The surgeon apothecary is the ordinary family medical attendant. One who sells drugs and makes up prescriptions is now commonly called in England a druggist or a pharmaceutical chemist. Apothecaries' weight, the system of weights by which medical prescriptions were formerly compounded. The pound and ounce are the same as in Troy weight; they differ only in the manner of subdivision. The ounce is divided into 8 drams, 24 scruples, 480 grains. See Troy weight.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(apothecaries) An apothecary was a person who prepared medicines for people. (OLD-FASHIONED) N-COUNT

Easton's Bible Dictionary

rendered in the margin and the Revised Version "perfumer," in Ex. 30:25; 37:29; Eccl. 10:1. The holy oils and ointments were prepared by priests properly qualified for this office. The feminine plural form of the Hebrew word is rendered "confectionaries" in 1 Sam. 8:13.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

a-poth'-e-ka-ri: Found in English Versions of the Bible eight times in the Old Testament and Apocrypha for Hebrew word rendered more accurately "perfumer" by the Revised Version (British and American) in Ex 30:25,35; 37:29; Ec 10:1; though inconsistently retained elsewhere (2Ch 16:14 the English Revised Version; Ne 3:8 the English Revised Version (compare the margin); Sirach 38:8; 49:1). See PERFUMER.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Pharmacist, pharmaceutist, pharmacian, druggist.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To talk like an apothecary; to use hard or gallipot words: from the assumed gravity and affectation of knowledge generally put on by the gentlemen of this profession, who are commonly as superficial in their learning as they are pedantic in their language.

Moby Thesaurus

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