officinal

Meaning

Adjective

  • Medicinal.
  • Used in a shop, or belonging to it.
  • Kept in stock by apothecaries; said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral.

Origin

  • From French, from Latin officīna, contracted from opificīna, from opifex; opus + faciō.

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