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  • noun Plural form of pothecary.

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Examples

  • And he heard their aresouns each gen other as touching birth and righteousness, young Madden maintaining that put such case it were hard the wife to die (for so it had fallen out a matter of some year agone with a woman of Eblana in Horne's house that now was trespassed out of this world and the self night next before her death all leeches and pothecaries had taken counsel of her case).

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Moreover, as for the avoidance and confirmation thereof, the plenipotentiaries have furthermore resolved that the 'pothecaries are concocting a certain miasma, by which decree we men are to be kept within salutary boundaries.

    The Day of Wrath M��r J��kai 1864

  • "Every inch of it, your honour's glory; we're always coming it for doctors and 'pothecaries; they're never a week without them."

    The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete Charles James Lever 1839

  • "Every inch of it, your honour's glory; we're always coming it for doctors and 'pothecaries; they're never a week without them."

    The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 2 Charles James Lever 1839

  • Eblana in Horne’s house that now was trespassed out of this world and the self night next before her death all leeches and pothecaries had taken counsel of her case).

    Ulysses 2003

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