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Ipothecar, Ipoticar, Ypothegar, n. Also: ypothicar; ipotygar. [Varr. of Apothecar. Cf. also Hipothecar and Pothecar.] An apothecary.(a) 1509 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 125.
Our familiar … seruitour, Maister Stephane, ypothegar 1542 Treas. Acc. VIII. 84.
The Frenche ipotygar(b) 1559 Edinb. B. Rec. III. 33.
Thomas Thomsoun, ipoticar 1567 Ib. 240.
Understanding the hale ipoticaris of this burgh to be the principale … sellaris of spices 1568 Hosack Mary Q. of Scots 533.
She refusit to send hir medicinar or ypothicar to visite him 1575 Edinb. Test. III. 318.
Thomas Dauidsoun, ipothecar 1601 Ib. XLVI. 131.
Archbald Mudie, ipoticar 1625 Ib. LIII. 139.
Patrike Hepburne, ipothecar