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APOTH'ECARY, n. L. and Gr. apotheca, a repository, from to deposit or lay aside, or from a chest.
1. One who practices pharmacy one who prepares drugs for medicinal uses, and keeps them for sale. In England, apothecaries are obliged to prepare medicines according to the formulas prescribed by the college of physicians, and are liable to have their shops visited by the censors of the college, who have power to destroy medicines which are not good.
2. In the middle ages, an apothecary was the keeper of any shop or warehouse and an officer appointed to take charge of a magazine.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Apothecary'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/a/apothecary.html.
Entry for 'Apothecary'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/a/apothecary.html.
