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Officinal

//ˌɒfɪˈsaɪnəl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Medicinal. dated

    "The leaves are the officinal part;"

  2. 2
    Used in a shop, or belonging to it. obsolete, rare

    "In this Part of the Town, are also three Convents, seventeen Churches, an Academy, a Printing-House, a Library, the Mint, and the Grand Dispensatory, which last is a very magnificent Building, and the Officinal Furniture is very rich, for the Pots are all of China, and the Glasses Chrystal."

  3. 3
    Kept in stock by apothecaries; said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral. obsolete

Etymology

From French, from Latin officīna (“a workshop”), contracted from opificīna, from opifex (“a workman”); opus (“work”) + faciō (“to make or do”).

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