| 单词 | druggery | 
| 释义 | druggeryn. 1.  Drugs collectively; medicine, physic; (Scottish) †a drug or medicinal preparation (obsolete). Also (in later use): the action of administering drugs. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > 			[noun]		 medicine?c1225 pottingary1474 druggery1507 physicary?1577 stuffa1616 materia medica1663 muti1860 1507    in  J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. 		(1901)	 III. 380  				To the potingair of Sanctandrois for drogary to the King. 1535    W. Stewart tr.  H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. 		(1858)	 III. 279  				Till all seik men or tha get drogarie. 1552    Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. Tabil sig. *.iii  				Potegareis that sellis corruppit drogaris. 1611    R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues  				Drogueries, drugs, druggeries, confections. 1718    H. M. Lauthier in  J. Ozell tr.  J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant I. p. xvi  				What I have been saying, is manifest from every thing in his Cabinet. The prodigious quantities of Plants that he had collected; rare Woods and Fruits; the Druggery, consisting of above eight hundred simple and natural Remedies. 1732    H. Baker  & J. Miller tr.  Molière Doctor & No Doctor xii. 99 in  Sel. Comedies II  				I'se would ha'ye, Zir, gi' us some little druggery Ware to heal 'er withal. 1822    J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie III. xxxiii. 285  				Nane o' the droguery nor the roguery o' doctors for me. 1855    C. Linton Healing of Nations xvi. 248  				Until the abundant weight of flesh be..rendered perfectly passive, the spirit within the body cannot act... This fact hath builded a systematized Druggery which drugs not only the animal into passiveness, but .[etc.]. 1891    G. Meredith One of our Conquerors I. vii. 118  				Awful combinations in druggery. 1944    Amer. Sociol. Rev. 9 442/2  				‘Modern’ medicine will have to live down..the sculduggery of placebo druggery. 2001    Times 		(Nexis)	 26 Mar.  				It took all of the NHS's technology and druggery to get the midget out of my intestines.  2.  Originally U.S. A place where drugs are kept for sale or use; a pharmacy, a drugstore. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > pharmacy > 			[noun]		 > pharmacist's premises > drug-store apothec1626 pharmacopoly1657 apothecariry1748 drugstore1771 druggery1827 1827    N. Amer. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 4 133  				A careful gymnastic prescription, under which, by the mere recuperative energies of the system, more good is sometimes effected, than by all the resources of a whole druggery. 1856    Putnam's Monthly Mag. Jan. 70/1  				I often pondered..how a gentleman..would accept of a night's lodging like unto my retreat..with a smoked-pork shop next door, a bakery and druggery on the other. 1865    W. G. Palgrave Narr. Journey through Arabia I. 422  				My druggery and consultation-room. 1985    D. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas xxxii. 770  				People everywhere were talking about it, from Lidden's Burger Stop to Bixbee's Druggery. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < | 
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