Middle English Dictionary Entry
apotecārie n.
Entry Info
| Forms | apotecārie n. Also apotic-, ypotic-, potecarie, poticari & (in names) ipoticar. |
| Etymology | ML apot(h)ēcārius; cp. also OF apotecaire, apotic-. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A pharmacist or druggist who stores, compounds, and sells medicaments of all sorts [cp. spicere]; (b) as occupational surname.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.425 : Ful redy hadde he hise apothecaries [Cmb Ii: at the potecaries] To sende hym drogges and his letuaries.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.NP.(Manly-Rickert)B.4138 : Thogh in this toun is noon apothecarye, I shal my self to herbes techen yow.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pard.(Manly-Rickert)C.852 : And forth he goth..vn to a pothecarie.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pard.(Manly-Rickert)C.859 : The pothecarie answerde..In al this world ther is no creature That ete or dronke hath of this confiture..That he ne shal his lyf anoon forlete.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)330/16 : Into a cuntre, þere ben noon apotecarijs.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)46 : Titimal, þe whiche þe ypoticarles knowen wel.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)55 : Att apoticaries, þe whiche knowyn wel alle þise þingis.
- (1423) Let.Bk.in Bk.Lond.E.(Gldh LetBk I & K)113/158-9 : If eny false Medicyns..be found to selle, be þe Rectour of Medicyns..and two Apotecharyes assigned þerto, in þe Shoppe of eny Apotechary..þat þei..be caste a-wey.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)165b/a : For to wirke in placez in which Apotecariez be not founden, And þof þai be founde þai be noȝt so gode ne al maner stuffed.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 277)28/10 : Common vnguentum album þat apotechariez makeþ.
- c1430(a1410) Love Mirror (Brsn e.9)260 : Forto bigge materes able to make oynementz of..they gone..to some apothecarie or spicer.
- (1437) Invent.Q.Katherine in Sus.AC 37 (Add 32645)174 : To the said Potikary.
- a1456(a1449) Lydg.Semblable (Ashm 59)58 : Of þe comfytes þexspert appoticarye, Of þemplastres treteþe þe surgen.
- c1450(a1449) Lydg.Diet.(Sln 3534)78 : This receyte ys boght of non apothecary..But to alle that it vse it is a chief electuary.
- c1450 Lydg.Diet.(Lamb 853)62 : Þouȝ it be bouȝt of no potecarie, Ne of noon oþer maister þat greet cunnynge can schewe.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)266/868 : With a littell ypoquissidos þat poticaris haue.
- (?a1466) Paston4.257 : As my potecarie swerytht on to me.
- (1474) Paston5.207 : Your apotycary, whyche was som tyme the Erle of Warwykes apotycary.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)24210 : Dyuerse confecciouns and other sondry lettuaryes Maked at the potycaryes.
- a1500(a1451) Commodities Eng.(LdMisc 593)553 : Dyvers dregs and spyce that belongyth both to grocers and to potycarys.
- a1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)377 : Phisicians & poticaris fawte appetite & will.
b
- (1297) Sub.R.Yks.in YASRS 16151, 152 : Ric. Ipotecar ..; Will. Ipotecar.