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pharmacy|ˈfɑːməsɪ|
Forms: 4–5 fermacie, -cye, 5 farmasye, (formacie), 7 pharmacie, 8– pharmacy.
[a. OF. farmacie (13–14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), pharmacie (16th c.), a. late L. pharmacīa (Cælius Aur., Isidore), a. Gr. ϕαρµακεία the practice of the ϕαρµακεύς or druggist.]
†1. A medicine or medicinal potion. Obs. rare—1.
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1855 Somme hadden salues and somme hadden charmes, Fermacies of herbes.
2. The use or administration of drugs or medicines. (Now chiefly poet. or rhet., or as a vague extension of next sense.)
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 83 A walkynge vlcus is heelid wiþ fleobotomie & formacie [v.r. ffarmasye]. 1704F. Fuller Med. Gymn. Pref., We ought not to be so eager after Courses of Pharmacy in all Cases. 1718Pope Iliad xvi. 38 Their pain soft arts of pharmacy can ease. 1850Blackie æschylus II. 40 They..did slowly..waste away for lack of pharmacy. 1895Elworthy Evil Eye 445 Pharmacy consisted in divination by means of medicated drugs.
3. The art or practice of collecting, preparing, and dispensing drugs, esp. for medicinal purposes; the making or compounding of medicines; the occupation of a druggist or pharmaceutical chemist.
[1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 1 b/1 Pharmacia instructed vs how to compownde our medicaments.] 1651Wittie tr. Primrose's Pop. Err. i. xi. 40 A physician ought..to be skilfull in Pharmacie, which consists in choice, preparation, and composition of simple Medicaments. 1717Garth Ovid's Met. xiv. 275 So nice her Art in impious Pharmacy! 1830Herschel Stud. Nat. Phil. 112 The vaunts of Paracelsus..and his open condemnation of the ancient pharmacy. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 76 A substance long known in pharmacy as ‘red precipitate’.
attrib.1882Chemist & Druggist 1 Feb. 51/1 The Poison Schedule of the Pharmacy act.
4. A place where medicines are prepared or dispensed; a drug-store or dispensary.
1833Fraser's Mag. VII. 321 Attached to the church..is a pharmacy, where medicine is dispensed gratis. 1842Blackw. Mag. LII. 494 The ‘Pharmacy’ is large, airy, and well-filled with ancient blue and white jars. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 554 Bonjean's ergotin is that usually kept in our pharmacies. |