potionmaker

English

Etymology

From potion +‎ maker.

Noun

potionmaker (plural potionmakers)

1. One who makes potions.
   • 1987, Peninnah Schram, “The Scroll of Bereshit”, in Jewish Stories One Generation Tells Another, Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson Inc., →ISBN, page 275:

     One night the King, who lived in the city to which the captives had been brought, could not sleep. He became depressed, then angry. His counselors did not know what to do for him. But as long as the King could not sleep, neither could they. The potionmakers made special sleep potions, but they did not help.

   • 2016, Tamara Grantham, Spellweaver (Olive Kennedy, Fairy World MD; 2), [The Colony, Tex.]: Crimson Tree Publishing, →ISBN, page 259:

     “This is where the elves experimented on the potionmakers. They were trying to learn how to manipulate the goblins’ powers and use them for their own. But they failed. They never discovered the secret of how to use liquid elements in place of spoken spells.” I thought of the rows of skeletal remains we’d passed as we’d entered the fortress. “They must have killed hundreds—thousands, perhaps—trying to dissect the potionmakers’ DNA.”

   • 2021, Yuka Tachibana, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian, The Saint’s Magic Power Is Omnipotent, volume 4, [Los Angeles, Calif.]: Seven Seas Entertainment, →ISBN, back cover:

     Sei thought she was summoned to another world completely by accident—a bystander, a leftover, and most certainly not the Holy Saint of legends. After a short struggle, she’d finally found a happy place for herself as a potionmaker and enchanter.