pharmacopolist Now rare.
(fɑːməˈkɒpəlɪst)
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
A seller of drugs; an apothecary, a druggist.
| 1651 Biggs New Disp §64 The family of Pharmacopolists. 1764 Foote Mayor of G. i. i, Not only a pharmacopolist, or vender of drugs, but likewise a chirurgeon. 1822 Scott Nigel ii. 1852 Th. Ross Humboldt's Trav. II. xxiv. 440 That self-sufficient air and tone of pedantry of which the pharmacopolists of Europe were formerly accused. |