alchemy
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- noun
- /ˈæl.kə.mi/
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alquimia
- The highest goal of alchemy.
- alchemy and magic
- practice of alchemy
So you have chem, you have alchemy, and now we have modern chemistry.
- So you have chem, you have alchemy, and now we have modern chemistry.
- From rare and toxic materials to wild alchemy.
- He's one of the world's great early logicians, mathematics, alchemy and also medicine.
- And I have this tattoo, which is an ancient Greek symbol for alchemy, actually.
- There is no alchemy that happens when chickens eat garbage in a factory and then produce eggs.
- But there was an ethic in alchemy, too, that was allied in part complexly with the whole Judeo-christian tradition.
- A real science that has been developed stands in relation to alchemy, not a real science, right?
- What we call a ports and what people refer to as conjury throughout the history of alchemy, right.
- You know, so like so when you so when you learn alchemy like and Egypt is Egypt after you know, ancient Egypt's name was Alkamet.
Examples
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Subsequent excavations have turned up about a thousand artifacts, which are housed in an alchemy museum on the castle grounds.
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A fearful alchemy by which this blood can be transformed into gold.
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Then why is it filed here with these volumes on alchemy?
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Don't forget, for example, that Newton spent much of his life doing alchemy research, right?
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In the mythology of the premodern world, there was a deep connection between mining and alchemy.
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The story takes place at a historical juncture where alchemy and chemistry, magic and science, were still indistinguishable.
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When you think of it, you know, think of the Middle Ages, it's magicians, it's magic, alchemy, fairs, festivals, all of those things.
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In Goethe's version, Faust used his knowledge of alchemy and related magic to conjure up the devil and make his pact.
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Medieval science was a mixture of Aristotelian teleology and alchemy, which stressed sympathetic connections among things, both mental and physical.
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Medieval alchemists believed they could use alchemy to transform lead into gold through secret processes.
Synonyms
Early study of chemicals and how they change, often linked to alchemy
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Etymology
Alchemy comes from Arabic al- 'the' plus kīmiyā, a word for the art of changing metals, and it is the same root as chemistry. So alchemy was the old practice of trying to turn ordinary metals into gold and to find a life-giving elixir.