apothecarist

plural apothecarists

1. Synonym of apothecary.

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   Only time will tell if Logan’s gift for spotting a loser is a trustworthy one, and he freely acknowledges that future generations may well view his demolitions of whomever in the same spirit that we now read Francis Jeffrey’s ad hominem attack on Wordsworth or John Wilson Croker’s sneering dismissal of a first volume by a jumped-up Cockney apothecarist, one John Keats.

   2009 April 26, Mark Ford, “Samurai Critic”, in New York Times

   Synonyms: apothecary