OFFICINAL  , a See also:

• TERM

term applied in See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine to drugs, See also:

• PLANTS

plants and herbs, which are sold in chemists' and druggists' shops, and to medical preparations of such drugs, &c., as are made in accordance with the prescriptions authorized by the See also:

• PHARMACOPOEIA (lit. the art of the OapµaK07robbs, or drug-compounder)

pharmacopoeia . In the latter sense, See also:

• MODERN

modern usage tends to supersede " officinal " by " See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official." The classical See also:

• LAT

Lat. officina meant a workshop, manufactory, laboratory, and in See also:

• MEDIEVAL

medieval monastic Latin was applied to a See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• STORE (from O. Fr. estor or estoire, Late Lat. staurum or instaurum, stock, provisions, supply, from the late use of instaurare, to provide, properly to construct, renew, restore)

store-See also:

• ROOM

room (see Du Cange, See also:

• GLOSS, GLOSSARY

Gloss., s.v.); it thus became applied to a See also:

• SHOP

shop where goods were sold rather than a See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place where things were made .