Plural of apothecarcary; a variant or erroneous plural form referring to apothecaries or persons engaged in the apothecary profession.
This appears to be an archaic, non-standard, or erroneous plural form of apothecary, possibly influenced by Latin plural endings or scribal errors in old documents. It represents an alternative grammatical construction that was abandoned in favor of 'apothecaries.'
Old spelling and plural forms were wild inconsistency—scribes would write the same word five different ways on the same page, which is why we see strange forms like this in medieval manuscripts that make historians pull their hair out!
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