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One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes. Note: In England an apothecary is one of a privileged class of practitioners -- a kind of sub-physician. The surgeon apothecary is the ordinary family medical attendant. One who

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One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes. Note: In England an apothecary is one of a privileged class of practitioners -- a kind of sub-physician. The surgeon apothecary is the ordinary family medical attendant. One who sells drugs and makes up prescriptions is now commonly called in England a druggist or a pharmaceutical chemist. Apothecaries' weight, the system of weights by which medical prescriptions were formerly compounded. The pound and ounce are the same as in Troy weight; they differ only in the manner of subdivision. The ounce is divided into 8 drams, 24 scruples, 480 grains. See Troy weight. (more info) apothecarius, fr. L. apotheca storehouse, Gr. apo, fr. apothicaire,

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  • CLASSIFIC
    Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
  • CLASSIFICATORY
    Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
  • CLASSICISM
    A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
  • CLASSIS
    An ecclesiastical body or judicat (more info) 1. A class or order; sort; kind. His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.
  • FAMILY
    A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
  • MEDICALLY
    In a medical manner; with reference to healing, or to the principles of the healing art.
  • CLASSMATE
    One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.
  • ORDINARY
    1. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. "The ordinary forms of law." Addison. 2. Common; customary; usual. Shak. Method is not less reguisite in ordinary conversation that in writing. Addison. 3. Of common rank, quality,
  • APOTHECARY
    One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes. Note: In England an apothecary is one of a privileged class of practitioners -- a kind of sub-physician. The surgeon apothecary is the ordinary family medical attendant. One who
  • PRIVILEGED
    Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity. Privileged communication. A communication which can not be disclosed without the consent of the party making it, -- such as those made by a client to his
  • CLASSIC
    1. A work of acknowledged excellence and authrity, or its author; -- originally used of Greek and Latin works or authors, but now applied to authors and works of a like character in any language. In is once raised him to the rank of a legitimate
  • CLASSICALITY; CLASSICALNESS
    The quality of being classical.
  • CLASSIFY
    To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrnge in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters. Syn. -- To arrange; distibute; rank.
  • CLASSIFICATION
    The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities. Artificial classification. See under Artifitial.
  • CLASSIBLE
    Capable of being classed.
  • ATTENDANT
    Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. Cowell. Attendant keys , the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant,
  • CLASS DAY
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  • MEDICINAL
    1. Having curative or palliative properties; used for the cure or alleviation of bodily disorders; as, medicinal tinctures, plants, or springs. Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum. Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to medicine;
  • MEDICINALLY
    In a medicinal manner.
  • CLASSIFIER
    One who classifies.
  • SUBORDINARY
    One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary. See Ordinary. Note: Different writers name different bearings as subordinaries, but the bar, bend, sinister, pile, inescutcheon bordure, gyron, and quarter, are always
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    Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended
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