alchemist

[ US /ˈæɫtʃəmɪst, ˈɑɫkəmɪst/ ]
[ UK /ˈælkɪmˌɪst/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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
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How To Use alchemist In A Sentence

  • All this mysticism promoted a general mistrust of alchemists.
  • The musical instruments symbolize an underlying harmony behind nature's powers, to which the successful alchemist must himself be attuned.
  • As early as the third century, Chinese alchemists used formulations of mercury as elixirs and attempted to transmute other substances into gold to use the gold as an elixir to prolong life.
  • Could Alchemist Isaac Newton have estimated the likelihood of the biogenetics that evolved out of Franklin, Watson & Crick's understanding of chemistry? Is Fusion in Our Future?
  • I ever knew, next my naunt of fairies in the Alchemist [4]. The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06
  • Alchemists, along with surgeons, soldiers, butchers and blacksmiths, were regarded as ‘children of Mars’, the association presumably coming about through the importance of heat in powering the alchemical athanor or furnace.
  • 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
  • While it heated up, I went back to the bar and tried to reenact my alchemistic trick in a wine glass. GOLD • by Michael McDonnell
  • He was also the author of a number of Paracelsian and iatrochemical texts and clearly a practising alchemist.
  • The alchemists thought that to every thing, or at any rate to every class of things, there corresponds a more perfect form than that which we see and handle; they spoke of gold, and the _gold of the Sages_; mercury, and the _mercury of the Philosophers_; sulphur, and the The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
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