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Webster 1913 Edition


Chemist

Chem′ist

,
Noun.
[Shortened from
alchemist
; cf. F.
chimiste
.]
A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.

Webster 1828 Edition


Chemist

CHEMIST.

[ See chimist.]

Definition 2024


chemist

chemist

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chemist (plural chemists)

  1. A person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.
    • 2013 August 10, A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
      As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
  2. (chiefly Britain, New Zealand) A pharmacist.
  3. (chiefly Britain, New Zealand) A pharmacy.
  4. (obsolete) An alchemist.

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