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# apothecary

«apothecary» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **pharmacist; chemist** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

pharmacist; chemist

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A person who made and sold medicines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/apothecary/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer common; today we say pharmacist or chemist.

### examples

- "Whose is it, and where did you get it?" asked the apothecary. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/apothecary/#x1)
- "Heaven preserve us!" cried the apothecary, "you are out of your mind. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/apothecary/#x2)
- ‘Who is it, and how did you get it?’ asked the apothecary. (The Yellow Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/apothecary/#x3)

### primary record

apothecary

### tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 11 (Torah 0, tales 11, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.2 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «apothecary» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/apothecary/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.