poticary

English

Noun

poticary (plural poticaries)

1. Obsolete form of apothecary.
   • 1562, Wylliam Turner [i.e., William Turner], “Of the Herbe Called in Latin Irio”, in The Second Parte of Guilliam Turners Herball⸝ […], Cologne: […] Arnold Birckman, →OCLC, folio 23, recto:

     [T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it [the iris] Irios in the genetiue caſe.

Anagrams

• apricoty