officinal

Adjective

officinal (comparative more officinal, superlative most officinal)

1. (dated) Medicinal.
   • The leaves are the officinal part;1850, Robert Eglesfeld Griffith, A Universal Formulary, page 371
   • She was the compound extract of all that was chemically pure and officinal—the dispensary contained nothing equal to her.1906, O. Henry, The Four Million, page 83
2. (obsolete, rare) Used in a shop, or belonging to it.
   • 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.1738, Philipp Johann von Strahlenberg, An Historico-geographical Description of the North and Eastern Parts of Europe and Asia, page 425
   • Dr. Kaempfer further observes, that the quantity of Varnish obtained from this officinal Anacardium tree is so great, as not only to serve to vernish all the untensils of China, Tonquin, and Japan, but that it is exported in wooden vessels to Batavia, and several other parts of India.1770, Philosophical Transactions, giving some Account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours of the Ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world., page 413
3. (obsolete, pharmaceutical) Kept in stock by apothecaries; said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral.