Apothecary
[ə'pɒθɪk(ə)rɪ] or [ə'pɑθə'kɛri]
Definition
(n.) One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes.
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Definition
n. one who prepares and sells drugs for medicinal purposes—a term long since substituted by druggist although still a legal description for licentiates of the Apothecaries' Society of London or of the Apothecaries' Hall of Ireland.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The physician's accomplice undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider.
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Examples
- But Amelia has never forgiven that Smith to this day, though he is now a peaceful apothecary near Leicester Square. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The doctor was sent for--the apothecary arrived. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A d---- fool--always was, the apothecary replied. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Being shaped internally and externally like an apothecary's mortar, they were called mortars or bombards. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- There was another old woman watching by the bed; the parish apothecary's apprentice was standing by the fire, making a toothpick out of a quill. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- If she lasts a couple of hours, I shall be surprised,' said the apothecary's apprentice, intent upon the toothpick's point. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- A practicing surgeon and apothecary of Penzance, Bingham Borlase, was willing to take Davy as an apprentice, and the youth began work and study in his office. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- And it was acting upon this hint that the worthy apothecary spoke with so much candour to Mrs. Bute Crawley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I saw a little apothecary there--surgeon, or whatever he is--who brought your worship into the world. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The republic of Hamburgh is said to do so from the profits of a public wine-cellar and apothecary's shop. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Why you look a little like the apothecary in Romeo already, I said. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Allan looks about for an apothecary's shop. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Within a few weeks he became apprenticed to an apothecary and surgeon, and, having thus found his vocation, drew up his own particular plan of self-education, to which he rigidly adhered. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- She flung up her head when Mrs. Pestler, the apothecary's lady, drove by in her husband's professional one-horse chaise. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They put it into a bed, and rubbed it; and Daniel went to the town for an apothecary, but life was quite gone. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Apothecaries' profit is become a bye-word, denoting something uncommonly extravagant. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Davy, Scheele, Dumas, Balard, Liebig, W?hler, and a number of other distinguished ch emists, were apothecaries' apprentices. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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