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apothecary

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"Old-time pharmacist"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /əˈpɒθəkəɹi/Part of speech nounSorted aacehoprtyStarts with AEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs

Word origin

From Old French apotecaire (whence French apothicaire), from Medieval Latin apothecarius (“storekeeper”), from Latin apotheca (“(originally) repository, storehouse, warehouse; (later) shop, store”), from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “a repository, storehouse”), from ἀπό (apó, “away”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “to put”), literally “a place where things are put away”. Doublet of apotheke, boutique, and bodega.

Used in a sentence

  • [T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it [the iris] Irios in the genetiue caſe.
  • O true Appothecarie! / Thy drugs are quicke. Thus with a kiſſe I die.
  • It amused me to see the bustle and the life in the apothecary's shop across the street.

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