APOTHECARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apothecary mean? 

• APOTHECARY (noun)
  The noun APOTHECARY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: APOTHECARY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APOTHECARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

apothecary; chemist; druggist; pharmacist; pill pusher; pill roller

Hypernyms ("apothecary" is a kind of...):

caregiver; health care provider; health professional; PCP; primary care provider (a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "apothecary"):

pharmaceutical chemist; pharmacologist (someone trained in the science of drugs (their composition and uses and effects))

 Context examples 

I saw a little apothecary there—surgeon, or whatever he is—who brought your worship into the world.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The only men who know their Latin are the apothecaries, the lawyers, and the Latin professors.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They put it into a bed and rubbed it, and Daniel went to the town for an apothecary, but life was quite gone.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He was the usual cut and dry apothecary, of no particular age and colour, with a strong Edinburgh accent and about as emotional as a bagpipe.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The good apothecary appeared a little puzzled.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Her brother's return was the first comfort; he could take best care of his wife; and the second blessing was the arrival of the apothecary.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He had been at the pains of consulting Mr. Perry, the apothecary, on the subject.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was then about twelve o'clock, and she returned to her sister's apartment to wait for the arrival of the apothecary, and to watch by her the rest of the night.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She would not listen, therefore, to her daughter's proposal of being carried home; neither did the apothecary, who arrived about the same time, think it at all advisable.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

This doctor therefore proposed, that upon the meeting of the senate, certain physicians should attend it the three first days of their sitting, and at the close of each day’s debate feel the pulses of every senator; after which, having maturely considered and consulted upon the nature of the several maladies, and the methods of cure, they should on the fourth day return to the senate house, attended by their apothecaries stored with proper medicines; and before the members sat, administer to each of them lenitives, aperitives, abstersives, corrosives, restringents, palliatives, laxatives, cephalalgics, icterics, apophlegmatics, acoustics, as their several cases required; and, according as these medicines should operate, repeat, alter, or omit them, at the next meeting.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)