Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PHAR'MA-CY
PHAR-MA-COP'O-LISTPHAR-MAK'O-LITE
PHAR'MA-CY, n. [Gr. φαρμακεια, a medicament, whether salutary or poisonous.]
The art or practice of preparing, preserving and compounding substances, whether vegetable, mineral or animal, for the purposes of medicine; the occupation of an apothecary. – Encyc.
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