poticary

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A form of apothecary — Synonym of pharmacist: a person who sells medicine, especially (historical) one who made and sold their own medicines in the medieval or early modern eras.

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Meanings

nounpoticary (plural poticaries)

plural poticaries

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of apothecary.

    [T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it [the iris] Irios in the genetiue caſe.

    1562, Wylliam Turner [i.e., William Turner], “Of the Herbe Called in Latin Irio”, in The Second Parte of Guilliam Turners Herball⸝ […], Cologne: […] Arnold Birckman, →OCLC, folio 23, recto

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APA

poticary. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/poticary

MLA

“poticary.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/poticary. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “poticary,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/poticary.

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