DISPENSARY
\dɪspˈɛnsəɹi], \dɪspˈɛnsəɹi], \d_ɪ_s_p_ˈɛ_n_s_ə_ɹ_i]\
Definitions of DISPENSARY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A place where medicines are kept and made up; a charitable institution for providing the poor with medical advice and medicines.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The shop or place in which medicines are prepared. Also, an institution in which the poor are furnished with advice and necessary medicines. (F.) Dispensaire. This word is also used by the French synonymously with Dispensatory.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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As commonly used, an institution which furnishes medical attendance, medicines, and the necessary appliances to the poor gratuitously, but does not receive them as inmates. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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