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单词 apothecary
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apothecaryn.

/əˈpɒθɪkəri/
Forms: Middle English–1500s apotecary, apotecarie, Middle English–1600s apothecarie, Middle English apotiquare, apotiquary, apotecarye, apotycary, appotecary, appoticary, 1500s appothecarie, apothicarie, apoticary, Middle English– apothecary. apheticMiddle English potecary(e, potecarie, Middle English potekary, Middle English–1500s potycary(e, 1500s poticary, poticarie, 1600s pottecary, potticary, 1700s pothecary.
Etymology: < Old French apotecaire, apoticaire (13th cent. in Littré) < late Latin apothēcārius store-keeper, < apothēca : see apothec n. and -ary suffix1.
1. originally. One who kept a store or shop of non-perishable commodities, spices, drugs, comfits, preserves, etc.This passed at an early period into the next: in 1617 the Apothecaries' Company of London was separated from the Grocers'.
2. spec. The earlier name for: One who prepared and sold drugs for medicinal purposes—the business now (since about 1800) conducted by a druggist or pharmaceutical chemist. From about 1700 apothecaries gradually took a place as general medical practitioners, and the modern apothecary holds this status legally, by examination and licence of the Apothecaries' Company; but in popular usage the term is archaic. Apothecaries' Weight: that by which drugs are compounded.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by medicine or drug > [noun]
apothecary1366
pharmacya1400
medication?a1425
drugging1754
pharmacotherapy1903
the world > health and disease > healing > pharmacy > apothecary or pharmacist > [noun]
spicer1297
apothecary1366
ointment makera1382
pothecaryc1387
pigmentarya1398
pottingar1474
pottingary1487
pothecar?a1505
ypothecar1509
potycaryar1533
pharmacopole?1541
drugger1594
confectioner1606
druggist1608
drugster1611
pharmacopoeian1618
druggister1632
druggard1637
chemica1642
pharmacopolist1651
pharmacopolitan1657
pharmacian1658
spicerer1665
pot-carrier1683
pharmacist1721
knight of the pestle1723
materialist1728
chemist and druggist1748
potter-carrier1764
drug man1769
gallipot1785
drug manufacturer1790
pharmaceutist1795
drug dealer1800
chemist1802
pharmaceutical chemist1821
essence-peddler1838
pill roller1843
pill-peddler1855
squirt1859
pill pusher1879
1366 Mandeville's Trav. v. 51 The marchauntis and the apotecaries countrefeten it [bawme].
c1386 G. Chaucer Prol. 425 Ful redy hadde he hise apothecaries [v.r. -tecaryis, -caries, appot-] To send him drogges.
1466 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 369 I toke of..the potekary, a lytel barel of water fore the sekenes.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. v. 118 The pawonn..signefyeth the phisicyen, spicer and Apotyquaire.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Song of Sol. iii. 6 All maner spyces of the Apotecary.
1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 199 Manie Poticaries, who doe bring into the market, oyntments, sirops, waters, and other drugges.
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. iii. 119 O true Apothecary: Thy drugs are swift. View more context for this quotation
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. iii. 53 Our Physicians & Apothecaries..owe most of these medicinable drugges to India.
1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 9 Modern Pothecaries, taught the Art By Doctor's Bills to play the Doctor's Part.
1766 W. Brownrigg in Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 229 The Pouhon water..was found to weigh twenty ounces, seven drachms, and fourteen grains, apothecaries weight.
1809 W. Combe Schoolmaster's Tour in Poet. Mag. Nov. 52 'Tis known that I took full enough, Of the Apothecary's stuff.
3. [compare Old French apotecarie, apotiquerie, and late Latin apothēcāria, the wares or shop of a drug-seller.] Drugs collectively: hence (a) a store of drugs; (b) medical treatment by drugs. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > collection or stock of
apothecary1561
dispensatory1654
dispensary1710
pharmacopoeia1721
codex1819
1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 4v Made in the Apothecarye.
1589 J. Sparke in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 541 They haue for apothicary herbes, trees, roots and gumme great store.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. i. iv. iii. 304 The ordinary is threefold,..Diet or Liuing, Apothecary, Surgery.
4. attributive quasi-adj.
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1562 in J. B. Heath Some Acct. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1869) 97 Poticarie wares such as shall be pure and perfyt good.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxiv. i. 176 To set up Apothecarie shops.
1614 S. Latham Falconry ii. i. 79 She hath no phisicall medicines, nor Apothecary scowrings giuen her.
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