Definition of Alchemies

1. Noun. (plural of alchemy) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Alchemies

1. alchemy [n] - See also: alchemy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alchemies

alcatote
alcatotes
alcatras
alcavala
alcavalas
alcayde
alcaydes
alcazar
alcazares
alcazars
alcedo
alcelaphine herpesvirus 1
alchemic
alchemical
alchemically
alchemies (current term)
alchemilla
alchemillas
alchemise
alchemised
alchemises
alchemising
alchemist
alchemistic
alchemistical
alchemistries
alchemistry
alchemists
alchemize
alchemized

Literary usage of Alchemies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Motives of Mankind: A Study of Human Evolutionary Forces by Frederick Uttley Laycock (1907)
"alchemies.' It is my deliberate opinion that if, standing on the threshold of being, one were given the choice of entering life as a Tierra del Fuegan, ..."

2. The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries by James Joseph Walsh (1907)
"John had been scarcely a year on the papal throne when he issued this decree forbidding "alchemies" and inflicting a punishment upon those who practised ..."

3. The Popes and Science: The History of the Papal Relations to Science During by James Joseph Walsh, ( (1908)
"H. Decree of Pope John XXII. forbidding alchemies, by which he prohibited the pretended making of gold and silver, but is claimed to have hampered the ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"... and, by marvellous and ineffable alchemies, co-working with the earth beneath and the heaven above ! Ah, not from any indifference, not from any haste ..."

5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1888)
"As an explanation, or anything approaching to an explanation, of the wondrous alchemies of organic life, and especially of the digestive processes—of the ..."

6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1895)
"His apprenticeship to the golden alchemies of the ' Opium-eater,' whose style was a standing-dish at College breakfast-parties, and his dabbling in Mr. ..."

7. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1870)
"The island was full of lovely and lonely haunts, where Nature wrought her delicious alchemies alone, and only her voices were heard. ..."

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