apothecal

apothecal

English

Adjective

apothecal (not comparable)

1. Relating to drugs or pharmacy.
   • 1872, Mortimer Collins, The Princess Clarice: A Story of 1871 (volume 1, page 108)

     I put down a little strychnine between two bits of meat, and am told next morning that "a gurt big cat has been found dead in the ditch." […] I laugh equally at bucolic menace and apothecal libel.

Related terms

• apothecary