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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Officinal  \Of*fic"i*nal\,  a.  [F.,  fr  L.  officina  a  workshop, 
  contr.fr.  opificina  fr  opifex  a  workman;  opus  work  +  facere 
  to  make  or  do.] 
  1.  Used  in  a  shop,  or  belonging  to  it  [Obs.  or  R.] 
  --Johnson. 
 
  2.  (Pharm.)  Kept  in  stock  by  apothecaries;  --  said  of  such 
  drugs  and  medicines  as  may  be  obtained  without  special 
  preparation  or  compounding;  not  magistral. 
 
  Note:  This  term  is  often  interchanged  with  official,  but  in 
  strict  use  officinal  drugs  are  not  necessarily 
  official.  See  {Official},  a.,  3. 

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