How To Use Alchemistic In A Sentence
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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
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Author of alchemistic and occult writings quoted in the Fihrist.
Languagehat.com: AN ARAB CHAMPOLLION?
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Under any circumstances, the preseason Power Rankings are a crapshoot, an alchemistical jumble of hard data and gut instincts.
CNN.com
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There's an alchemistic quality to some of the more common explanations of Europe's crisis.
2012: A U.S. Referendum on Europe
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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).
Alchemy: Ancient and Modern
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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
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Boehme acquired a vocabulary of alchemistical terms which he was always labouring to turn to spiritual meaning, but which always baffled him.
Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
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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
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As the first sort of legislators attended to the different kinds of citizens, and combined them into one commonwealth, the others, the metaphysical and alchemistical legislators, have taken the directly contrary course.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
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As the first sort of legislators attended to the different kinds of citizens, and combined them into one commonwealth, the others, the metaphysical and alchemistical legislators, have taken the direct contrary course.
Paras. 300-324
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This extravagance is also very pronounced in the alchemistic works attributed to him; for example, the belief in the artificial creation of minute living creatures resembling men (called "homunculi") -- a belief of the utmost absurdity, if we are to understand it literally.
Alchemy: Ancient and Modern
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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
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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