pharmacopolist love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dealer in drugs or medicines; an apothecary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who sells medicines; an apothecary.

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  • noun One who sells medicines; an apothecary.

Etymologies

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Latin pharmacopola

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Examples

  • “Good Heaven! how unfortunate!” said Lady Penelope, with a deep sigh, and sinking down on one of the little sofas in an attitude of shocking desolation, which called the instant attention of Mr. Pott and his good woman, the first uncorking a small phial of salts, for he was a pharmacopolist as well as vender of literature and transmitter of letters, and the other hastening for a glass of water.

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • I requested of a little boy who was pounding some stuff in a mortar, that he would procure me an audience of this learned pharmacopolist.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • No pharmacopolist could sell one grain of hellebore—not a single armorer had a heart to forge one instrument of death.

    23. A Fragment 1917

  • I requested of a little boy who was pounding some stuff in a mortar, that he would procure me an audience of this learned pharmacopolist.

    Rob Roy 1887

  • When he entered the shop, the pharmacopolist was much surprised, and said, with a congratulatory grin at the great man, "Dear me, Squire O'Grady, I'm delighted to see you."

    Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes Samuel Lover 1832

  • I requested of a little boy who was pounding some stuff in a mortar, that he would procure me an audience of this learned pharmacopolist.

    Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • "Good Heaven! how unfortunate!" said Lady Penelope, with a deep sigh, and sinking down on one of the little sofas in an attitude of shocking desolation, which called the instant attention of Mr. Pott and his good woman, the first uncorking a small phial of salts, for he was a pharmacopolist as well as vender of literature and transmitter of letters, and the other hastening for a glass of water.

    St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801

  • I requested of a little boy who was pounding some stuff in a mortar, that he would procure me an audience of this learned pharmacopolist.

    Rob Roy — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

  • No pharmacopolist could sell one grain of hellebore, - not a single armourer had a heart to forge one instrument of death; - Friendship and Virtue met together, and kiss'd each other in the street; the golden age returned, and hung over the town of Abdera - every

    A Sentimental Journey 1766

  • No pharmacopolist could sell one grain of hellebore, -- not a single armourer had a heart to forge one instrument of death; -- Friendship and Virtue met together, and kiss'd each other in the street; the golden age returned, and hung over the town of Abdera -- every

    A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy Laurence Sterne 1740

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