potioner

English edit

Etymology edit

From potion +‎ -er.

Noun edit

potioner (plural potioners)

One who makes potions.
- 1921, The Australasian Manufacturer, volume 6, page 18:
  The “potioners,” so far from casting evil spells around the ball, say that rubber centres cannot be moulded to the perfect shape; […]
- 2010, Bruce Macbain, Roman Games, Poisoned Pen Press, →ISBN, page 181:
  The woman’s knees were swollen, misshapen knobs of bone. Hopelessly arthritic. “Aren’t they pretty, Vice Prefect? They’re the price an athlete pays. And the pain is unbearable. No medicine, no amulet relieves it, not even the compassionate Isis to whom I pray daily. Only wine mixed with opium—which I buy from the potioners, yes—dulls it enough so that I can live my life as I wish to. […]”
- 2011, Elizabeth C. Bunce, Liar’s Moon, Arthur A. Levine Books, →ISBN, page 46:
  “That Ceid thing? Bad business. You want to know about the poison.” That was the Grillig I remembered. “It didn’t come from around here,” he said. “There might be a handful of potioners in Gerse who deal in stuff like that. Freitag up in Sixth, or maybe Ver — nay, he’s gone to the gallows. Anyway, with the restrictions and the embargoes, nobody wants to take that kind of risk these days.”
- 2013, Andrew Vachss, Mortal Lock, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, →ISBN, pages 229–230:
  We don’t have wars anymore. We have Warlocks, but the name doesn’t mean what it sounds like: In Underground, the Warlocks are potioners.
- 2014, Subhas, Imagination Drift: A Prince for Three Days, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 239:
  Clive said that it was the parasites in the food and that they were getting to his brain. He recommended that the potioners give Malcolm the medicine of all medicines. The seasoned ones knew that it could be the cure, but feared that the main side effect of the potion was death to both the host and the parasites if the monkey was allergic to the drug.
- 2021, Nicky Drayden, Minecraft: The Dragon, Del Rey, →ISBN:
  “I’m just sitting here, enjoying the breeze.” And definitely not trying to steal, er, borrow, um…take a little water to make potions in a town that doesn’t think too highly of potioners.
- 2022, Cady Hammer, Chasing Fate, Black Lily Press, →ISBN:
  “You have to be a crazy person to try to make them. It takes years and years of training to be able to put one together.” “I studied under one of the best potioners that I know,” Kiara responds. “We never made one, but he taught me all the basic principles behind personalized potions. […]”

Latin edit

Verb edit

pōtiōner

first-person singular present passive subjunctive of pōtiōnō