Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A practitioner of alchemy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who practises or is versed in alchemy. Formerly also spelled
alchymist .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who practices alchemy.
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- noun One who practices
alchemy . - noun One who blends material or substances in the nature or supposed nature of alchemy.
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- noun one who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone
Etymologies
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Examples
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Whether Jabir counts as scientist or alchemist is an open question: within a generation, real science, intense scholarship and a palpable curiosity about the physical world began to emerge.
Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim al-Khalili – review Tim Radford 2010
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The word alchemist suddenly recalled the Archdeacon Claude Frollo to his mind.
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I wondered if from one of those dark windows she were looking forth anxiously for succour, and I called the alchemist to my side and bade him send up a fire balloon as a signal that help was at hand.
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It appears more probable, however, either that Lully the alchemist was a personage distinct from the Lully whose life we have sketched above, or that the alchemistic writings attributed to him are forgeries of a similar nature to the works of pseudo-Geber (§ 32).
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Samuel Brown, called the alchemist by chemists, and a few others.
Authors and Friends Fields, Annie, 1834-1915 1896
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Brown, called the alchemist by chemists, and a few others.
Authors and Friends Annie Fields 1874
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Of all dreams, that of the alchemist is the most poetical, for he looked at the finest symbol.
At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe Margaret Fuller 1830
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In cases where self-interest and ambition are the basis of this peculiarity of temperament, and in an age when the conjuror and the alchemist were the companions and even the idols of princes, it is easy to trace the steps by which a gifted sage retains his ascendancy among the ignorant.
The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler David Brewster 1824
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Through a kind of alchemist's magic, the same sort of engine that was laboring to hold up the Boeing model could produce a comfortable margin of lifting power for Lockheed Martin.
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Through a kind of alchemist's magic, the same sort of engine that was laboring to hold up the Boeing model could produce a comfortable margin of lifting power for Lockheed Martin.
sera commented on the word alchemist
A mountebank practice unsubstantiated medicine as an alchemist practices unsubstantiated science
August 13, 2007
seanahan commented on the word alchemist
This word is from the arabic for "The Chemist".
August 14, 2007