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pharmacy (n.)

late 14c., "a medicine," from Old French farmacie "a purgative" (13c.), from Medieval Latin pharmacia, from Greek pharmakeia "use of drugs, medicines, potions, or spells; poisoning, witchcraft; remedy, cure," from pharmakeus (fem. pharmakis) "preparer of drugs, poisoner, sorcerer" from pharmakon "drug, poison, philter, charm, spell, enchantment." Beekes writes that the original meaning cannot be clearly established, and "The word is clearly Pre-Greek." Meaning "use or administration of drugs" is attested from c. 1400; that of "place where drugs are prepared and dispensed" is first recorded 1833. The ph- was restored 16c. in French, 17c. in English (see ph).

pharmacokinetics (n.)

1960, from pharmaco- (see pharmacy) + kinetic. …

pharmacology (n.)

1721, formed in Modern Latin (1680s) from pharmaco- (see pharmacy) + -logy. Related: Pharmacological. …

pharmacist (n.)

1811; see pharmacy + -ist. Replaced obsolete pharmacian (1720). The Latin word was pharmacopola, the Greek pharmakopoles.

parmaco- 

word-forming element meaning "drug, medicine," also "poison," from Latinized form of Greek pharmako-, combining form of pharmakon "drug, poison" (see pharmacy).

pharmaceutical (adj.)

pharmakeutikos, from pharmakeus "preparer of drugs, poisoner" (see pharmacy). Related: Pharmaceuticals; pharmaceutically.

pharmacopeia (n.)

pharmakopoiia "preparation of drugs," from pharmakon "drug" (see pharmacy) + poiein "to make" (see …

drug store (n.)

also drug-store, 1810, American English, "pharmacy, store that sells medications and related products," from drug (n …

magistral (adj.)

director" (see master (n.)). Meaning "authoritative; of, pertaining to, or befitting a master" is from c. 1600. In pharmacy, of a remedy, etc., "devised by a physician for a particular case, prepared for the occasion" (c. 1600). …

jerk (n.2)

Consider now the meek and humble soda-fountain clerk, Who draweth off the moistened air with nimble turn and jerk,   [etc., "Bulletin of Pharmacy," Detroit, Michigan, August, 1902] …
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