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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 22 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OFFICINAL , a See also:

term applied in See also:medicine to drugs, See also: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. In the latter sense, See also:modern usage tends to supersede " officinal " by " See also:official." The classical See also:Lat. officina meant a workshop, manufactory, laboratory, and in See also:medieval monastic Latin was applied to a See also:general See also:store-See also:room (see Du Cange, See also:Gloss., s.v.); it thus became applied to a See also:shop where goods were sold rather than a See also:place where things were made.

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