apothecarist

English

Noun

apothecarist (plural apothecarists)

1. Synonym of apothecary
   • 2009 April 26, Mark Ford, “Samurai Critic”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Only time will tell if Logan’s gift for spotting a loser is a trustworthy one, and he freely acknowledges that future generations may well view his demolitions of whomever in the same spirit that we now read Francis Jeffrey’s ad hominem attack on Wordsworth or John Wilson Croker’s sneering dismissal of a first volume by a jumped-up Cockney apothecarist, one John Keats.