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potioner

potioner noun: one who makes potions.

Noun

potioner (plural potioners)

  1. One who makes potions.
    • The “potioners,” so far from casting evil spells around the ball, say that rubber centres cannot be moulded to the perfect shape; […]1921, The Australasian Manufacturer, volume 6, page 18
    • The woman’s knees were swollen, misshapen knobs of bone. Hopelessly arthritic. “Aren’t they pretty, Vice Prefect? They’re the price an athlete pays. And the pain is unbearable. No medicine, no amulet relieves it, not even the compassionate Isis to whom I pray daily. Only wine mixed with opium—which...2010, Bruce Macbain, Roman Games, Poisoned Pen Press, →ISBN, page 181

Examples of potioner in a sentence

  • Only wine mixed with opium—which I buy from the potioners, yes—dulls it enough so that I can live my life as I wish to.[…]”2010, Bruce Macbain, Roman Games, Poisoned Pen Press, →ISBN, page 181:
  • “There might be a handful of potioners in Gerse who deal in stuff like that.2011, Elizabeth C. Bunce, Liar’s Moon, Arthur A. Levine Books, →ISBN, page 46:
  • We have Warlocks, but the name doesn’t mean what it sounds like: In Underground, the Warlocks are potioners.2013, Andrew Vachss, Mortal Lock, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, →ISBN, pages 229–230:
  • He recommended that the potioners give Malcolm the medicine of all medicines.2014, Subhas, Imagination Drift: A Prince for Three Days, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 239:

Forms of potioner

pluralpotioners

Origin of potioner

From potion + -er.

Questions about potioner

What does potioner mean?
Potioner means one who makes potions.
How do you use potioner in a sentence?
Only wine mixed with opium—which I buy from the potioners, yes—dulls it enough so that I can live my life as I wish to.[…]”
What part of speech is potioner?
Potioner is a noun.
What is the plural of potioner?
The plural of potioner is potioners.

Words near potioner in the dictionary

  1. potion
  2. potional
  3. potioned
  4. potioneer
  5. potioneers
  6. potioner
  7. potioners
  8. potioning
  9. potionmaker
  10. potionmakers
  11. potionmaster

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