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Definition of Alchymy
1. alchemy [n -MIES] - See also: alchemy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alchymy
Literary usage of Alchymy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1823)
"alchymy. I HAVE seen an advertisement in a newspaper, from a pretender of the
hermetic art. With the assistance of " a little money" he could " positively" ..."
2. The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and by Andrew Kippis, William Godwin, George Robinson (1820)
"RI] THE materials composing the history of alchymy being scattered through a ...
Lord Bacon's sound sense has been arraigned for his belief in alchymy, ..."
3. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions by Charles Mackay (1841)
"Vincent de Beauvais argues, indeed, that all the antediluvians must have possessed
a knowledge of alchymy; and particularly cites Noah as having been ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, John Bagnell Bury (1897)
"... there is not the least mention of the transmutation of metals; and the
persecution of Diocletian is the first authentic event in the history of alchymy. ..."
5. A Manual of Chemistry: Containing the Principal Facts of the Science by William Thomas Brande (1830)
"GEBER is another great name in the history of alchymy *; though the exact period
at which he lived is unknown, it was •'•* Primus omnium Arabum post Graecos ..."
6. The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell (1907)
"... Apartment Assigned to Boswell in Johnson's House—Sunday Consultations—
alchymy—Johnson's " Rhinoceros Laugh "—Correspondence with Boswell in Scotland. ..."
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