apothecal

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English

Adjective

apothecal (not comparable)

  1. 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.