dispensatory

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dispēnsātōrius, and the noun dispēnsātōrium. Compare Latin dispēnsātor, dispēnsō and English dispense.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpɛnsəˌtɔɹi/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpɛnsətəɹi/, /dɪsˈpɛnsətɹi/

Adjective

dispensatory (comparative more dispensatory, superlative most dispensatory)

1. Granting, or authorized to grant, dispensations.
   • 1635, Edward Rainbow, Labour forbidden and commanded:

     The dispenser [is] the Son of man; the author of his dispensatory power, God the Father.

Noun

dispensatory (plural dispensatories)

1. (pharmacy, pharmacology) A book containing a systematic description of drugs and of preparations made from them.

See also

a book containing a systematic description of drugs and of preparations made from them

• codex
• formulary
• pharmacopoeia

 

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dispensatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)