Definition of Officinals

1. officinal [n] - See also: officinal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Officinals

officialties
officialty
officiant
officiants
officiaries
officiary
officiate
officiated
officiates
officiating
officiation
officiations
officiator
officiators
officinal
officinals (current term)
officious
officiously
officiousness
officiousnesses
offie
offies
offing
offings
offish
offishly
offishness
offishnesses
offkey

Literary usage of Officinals

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy by Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (1831)
"... of the London Pharmacopoeia is advantageously introduced into the present edition ; but the capsules of the poppy are not in the list of officinals. ..."

2. Proceedings of the Connecticut Medical Society by Connecticut Medical Society (1884)
"... its pharmaceutical preparations numerous, we having at least forty officinals which are kept in every full and well regulated drug store. ..."

3. A Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia:: Being a Treatise on Pharmacology in by Samuel Frederick Gray (1821)
"These officinals were the nostrums of the middle ages, and arc still distinguished from the old officinals, called Galenical, mostly discovered in times ..."

4. Syllabus of pharmacy course: Department of Pharmacy Massachusetts College of by Edgar L. Patch (1883)
"Common Name and Botanical and officinals. Glucosides. Geog. Source. Senna. Cassia acutifolia. ... officinals. and Geog. Source. (herb). 4.75 %. Alder Bark. ..."

5. The Historical Register of the United States by Thomas H. Palmer (1814)
"They also compound and prepare all officinals, and put up and issue medicines, &c. in chests, or otherwise, conformably to the direction of the physician ..."

6. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1804)
"In some of the officinals, however, he has been less cautious; and the medicinal wines are greatly simplified, and the preparation more carefully, detailed. ..."

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