Meanings
adjectiveapothecal (not comparable)
- not comparableRelating to drugs or pharmacy.
I put down a little strychnine between two bits of meat, and am told next morning that "a gurt big cat has been found dead in the ditch." […] I laugh equally at bucolic menace and apothecal libel.
1872, Mortimer Collins, The Princess Clarice: A Story of 1871, volume 1, page 108
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