Officinal

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Readily available in pharmacies; not requiring special preparation.
  • adj. Recognized by a pharmacopoeia: an officinal herb.
  • n. An officinal drug.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Medicinal.
  • adj. Used in a shop, or belonging to it.
  • adj. Kept in stock by apothecaries; said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Used in a shop, or belonging to it.
  • adj. Kept in stock by apothecaries; -- said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to a shop or laboratory; used in a shop or laboratory. Especially
  • Of an apothecary's shop: applied in pharmacy to preparations made according to recognized prescriptions; specifically, prescribed in the pharmacopœia.
  • In botany, used in medicine or the arts.
  • n. A drug or medicine sold in an apothecary's shop; specifically, a drug prepared according to the pharmacopœia.
  • Word Usage
    "An officinal tincture is made from the plants collected in the spring, when two years old; also, in some villages the infusion is employed as a homely remedy to cure a cold, the herb being known as "Throttle Wort;" but this is not a safe thing to do, for medical experience shows that the watery infusion of"
    Antonym
    magistral   
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