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Alchemistic

Alchemistic \Al`che*mis"tic\, Alchemistical \Al`che*mis"tic*al\, a. Relating to or practicing alchemy.

Metaphysical and alchemistical legislators.
--Burke.

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alchemistic

a. Of or pertaining to alchemist.

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alchemistic

adj. of or relating to alchemists [syn: alchemistical]

Usage examples of "alchemistic".

Thus, according to one curious alchemistic work, "This matter, so precious by the excellent Gifts, wherewith Nature has enriched it, is truly mean, with regard to the Substances from whence it derives its Original.

Sendivogius offered to effect Sethon's escape in return for assistance in his alchemistic pursuits, to which arrangement the Scottish alchemist willingly agreed.

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.

Or think what would happen if he stumbled across some great alchemistic secret.

But even if it's only the one, they provide him with alchemistic secrets we can only dream of—if only to keep him on the string.

In Prague, Rudolph II turned his court into an alchemistic laboratory, invited Comenius and John Dee, the English court astrologer who had revealed all the secrets of the cosmos in the few pages of his Monas lerogliphica.

The first alchemistic principle is VITRIOL: Visita Interiora Terrae, Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapi-dem.

Then, at the end of the century, another American—name of Teed— revived the notion, supported by alchemistic experiments and a reading of Isaiah.

Nicolas Flamel the alchemist, an alchemistic bookshop, and then the Tour Saint-Jacques, with those great white lions at the base, a useless late-Gothic tower near the Seine, after which an esoteric review was named.

This legend, one of the most recurrent in alchemistic dreams, was later used as the basis for a famous novel by Gustav Meyrink, Der Golem (1915).

Earned a good living in eighteenth-century Europe peddling alchemistic powders, love philtres, elixirs of youth, and other useful compounds.

Having regard to the period, and to the alchemistic nature of the goods that composed so much of Anne's stock-in-trade at the sign of the Golden Distaff, in Paternoster Row, it may be conjectured that the love-lorn Frances had thoughts of a philtre.

He had dabbled in alchemistic experiments himself, making distillations, aqua regia, aqua fortris, and iron vitriol.

Beeswax and alchemistic silver-cleansers clogged the nostrils, even over the smell of perfumes.

But even if it's only the one, they provide him with alchemistic secrets we can only dream of—if only to keep him on the string.