apothecal
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- 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.