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Webster 1913 Edition


Pharmacy

Phar′ma-cy

,
Noun.
[OE.
fermacie
, OF.
farmacie
,
pharmacie
, F.
pharmacie
, Gr.
φαρμακεία
, fr.
φαρμακεύειν
to administer or use medicines, fr.
φάρμακον
medicine.]
1.
The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs, and of compounding and dispensing medicines according to prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist.
2.
A place where medicines are compounded; a drug store; an apothecary’s shop.

Webster 1828 Edition


Pharmacy

PHAR'MACY

,
Noun.
[Gr. a medicament, whether salutary or poisonous.]
The art or practice of preparing, preserving and compounding substances, whether vegetable, mineral or animal, for the purposes of medicine; the occupation of an apothecary.

Definition 2024


pharmacy

pharmacy

English

Noun

pharmacy (countable and uncountable, plural pharmacies)

  1. (countable) A place where prescription drugs are dispensed, a dispensary.
  2. (uncountable) The science of medicinal substances comprising pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, phytochemistry and forensics.
  3. (uncountable) The occupation of a pharmacist.

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  • pharmacy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • pharmacy in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
  • pharmacy at OneLook Dictionary Search