Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: apothecary
IPA transcription: [əp'ɑθək,ɛɹi]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: pharmacist, druggist, chemist, apothecary, pill_pusher, pill_roller
    Meaning: a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs
Usage examples
  • The apothecary inquired who was ill.
  • These things can be had of the apothecary at the house of Understanding next door to Reason, on Prudent street.
  • On this, Genre made advances to the apothecary, urging him to put arsenic into his medicine; but the apothecary shrugged his shoulders.
  • "Alas!" said she, taking it from the apothecary, "I am afraid that this remedy will have no better effect than the lozenges; and that I shall lose my good master."
  • The curate and the apothecary, with a little man, who made no boast of his vocation, but who, from the flourish and snap of his fingers, I believe to have been the barber, strongly espoused the cause of high church and the Stuart line.
  • God bless me, how he hated them, that same apothecary! And so what I'm thinking is, if all duennas, of whatever sort or condition they may be, are plagues and busybodies, what must they be that are distressed, like this Countess Three-skirts or Three-tails!--for in my country skirts or tails, tails or skirts, it's all one."
  • "Hush, friend Sancho," said Don Quixote; "since this lady duenna comes in quest of me from such a distant land she cannot be one of those the apothecary meant; moreover this is a countess, and when countesses serve as duennas it is in the service of queens and empresses, for in their own houses they are mistresses paramount and have other duennas to wait on them."