The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paracelsian \Par`a*cel"si*an\, prop. n.
A follower of Paracelsus or his practice or teachings.
--Hakewill.
Paracelsian \Par`a*cel"si*an\, prop. a.
Of, pertaining to, or in conformity with, the practice of
Paracelsus, a Swiss physician and alchemist of the 15th
century.
--Ferrand.
Wiktionary
n. (context mineralogy English) A natural polymorph of celsian.
Usage examples of "paracelsian".
Divines of all sorts, and physicians, Philosophers, mathematicians: The Galenist and Paracelsian 475 Condemn the way each other deals in: Anatomists dissect and mangle, To cut themselves out work to wrangle Astrologers dispute their dreams, That in their sleeps they talk of schemes: 480 And heralds stickle, who got who So many hundred years ago.
To have been the presiding genius of my own clinic and to have watched my procession of patients, some of them aporetics for a certainty, but many others who improved under my care and gave weight to my Paracelsian notion of the healing art, that was anything but trivial.