officinal

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Medicinal. dated
    — The leaves are the officinal part;
  2. Used in a shop, or belonging to it. obsolete,rare
    — In this Part of the Town, are also three Convents, seventeen Churches, an Academy, a Printing-House, a Library, the Mint, and the Grand Dispensatory, which last is a very magnificent Building, and the Officinal Furniture is very rich, for the Pots are all of China, and the Glasses Chrystal.
  3. Kept in stock by apothecaries; said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral. obsolete

词形变化

more officinal comparative most officinal superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
nonofficinal officinally unofficinal

词源

From French, from Latin officīna (“a workshop”), contracted from opificīna, from opifex (“a workman”); opus (“work”) + faciō (“to make or do”).
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