Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or practising alchemy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to or practicing alchemy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
alchemists .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to alchemists
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word alchemistic.
Examples
-
Undoing the people's will is the mystical bait and switch known as the alchemistic art of the political magic, it's cornerstone and that ruling spirit is enmeshed in every aspect of the phantom system governance.
Room Eight 2008
-
Perhaps more artists should get involved in politics to use our alchemistic skills to change such an ugly trade into something more beautiful.
January 2009 2009
-
While it heated up, I went back to the bar and tried to reenact my alchemistic trick in a wine glass.
-
There's an alchemistic quality to some of the more common explanations of Europe's crisis.
2012: A U.S. Referendum on Europe Bret Stephens 2012
-
I'm sort of put off by people who make their livings--and I'm beginning to sound like my ancient mentor of the moment, Charles Ives--off of fiction and then claim to be reality philosophers and therefore the only observers able to fairly understand why multitudes of world folk follow the foolish and deadly biases and fears, off-the-wall platitudes, and alchemistic sciences of ancient imagination, an uneducated imagination.
Books Again The Daily Growler 2006
-
Author of alchemistic and occult writings quoted in the Fihrist.
-
In this, however, he was disappointed; she knew nothing of the matter, but she had the manuscript of an alchemistic work written by her late husband.
Bygone Beliefs 1969
-
Afterwards, he appears to have degenerated into an impostor, but this is said to have been a finesse to hide his true character as an alchemistic adept.
Bygone Beliefs 1969
-
PARACELSUS 'views were based upon his theory (undoubtedly true in a sense) that man is a microcosm, a world in miniature. 24 Now, all things material, taught PARACELSUS, contain the three principles termed in alchemistic phraseology salt, sulphur, and mercury.
Bygone Beliefs 1969
-
Sendivogius offered to effect Sethon's escape in return for assistance in his alchemistic pursuits, to which arrangement the Scottish alchemist willingly agreed.
Bygone Beliefs 1969
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.