Definition of "pharmacopolist" []

• One who sells medicines; an apothecary. (noun)

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• "“Good Heaven! how unfortunate!” said Lady Penelope, with a deep sigh, and sinking down on one of the little sofas in an attitude of shocking desolation, which called the instant attention of Mr. Pott and his good woman, the first uncorking a small phial of salts, for he was a pharmacopolist as well as vender of literature and transmitter of letters, and the other hastening for a glass of water."
• "I requested of a little boy who was pounding some stuff in a mortar, that he would procure me an audience of this learned pharmacopolist."
• "No pharmacopolist could sell one grain of hellebore—not a single armorer had a heart to forge one instrument of death."