apothecary

noun

1. (archaic, dated)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.

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

   “O true Appothecarie! / Thy drugs are quicke. Thus with a kiſſe I die.”

   “The girls, though their illness was long and dangerous, recovered under Mrs. Palmer's care, who watched over them as if they had been her own; and from that time an affection, as valuable as it was pleasant, sprang up between them. When Lady Anne returned, she called, and talked about every thing but the apothecary's bill.”

   “It amused me to see the bustle and the life in the apothecary's shop across the street.”

   “[K]nowledge of philtres, aphrodisiacs, and other sexual stimulants spread from the Arabs and the Moors, from Egypt and India into the European herbals, pharmacopeias, and apothecaries’ lore, and, on a more indeterminate level, among alchemists, wizards, and occultists.”

2. (archaic, historical)Synonym of pharmacy: an apothecary's shop, a drugstore.

   “The Russian people as a whole almost revered the apothecary, and they entered it as they would enter a sanctum.”

   “He was befriended by a local druggist, Jay Miller, who worked at the apothecary at the corner of Sixth and Harrison Street.”

   “Seeds found in a 1630s refuse-filled clay borrow pit, located near an apothecary, illustrate colonists intense interest in experimenting with the medicinal qualities of New World plants.”

3. (uncommon)A glass jar of the sort once used for storing medicine.