单词 | officinal |
释义 | officinal —officinally, adv. /euh fis"euh nl/, adj. 1. kept in stock by apothecaries, as a drug. Cf. magistral (def. 1). 2. recognized by a pharmacopoeia. n. 3. an officinal medicine. [1710-20; < ML officinalis of a store or workshop, equiv. to L officin(a) workshop, presumably contr. of opificina (opific-, s. of opifex artisan, equiv. to opi-, comb. form akin to opus work + -fic-, comb. form of facere to make, DO1 + -ina -INE1; cf. OFFICE) + -alis -AL1] |
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