azoth
- noun
- /ˈeɪzəθ/
- Archaic
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azoth
- So closely was Azoth bound up with the essence of Paracelsus's thought that in certain portraits he is shown holding a sword pommel (supposedly a secret repository for his panacea) inscribed "AZOTH" (Fig. 2).
Examples
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The ancient texts suggested that azoth was the key ingredient for achieving immortality.
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Such a character, blood coagulation, nine heavy azoth environment, even in turn the Dragon King's palace, but also has a party of powerful terrorist existence.
Blog text (31) -
The idea at the same time appears in two people's minds; it can only be azoth friar, or even these build base. It is impossible for two people to easily force a hard hit back; there is no mess.
Blog text (1) -
Given Poussin's contact with a Paracelsan adherent in the years preceding The Plague of Ashdod, it should also be mentioned that in certain learned circles, Azoth, French for Ashdod, signified more than just the city of the Philistines.
Academic text (2004) -
So closely was Azoth bound up with the essence of Paracelsus's thought that in certain portraits he is shown holding a sword pommel (supposedly a secret repository for his panacea) inscribed "AZOTH" (Fig. 2).
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In alchemy, azoth is regarded as a universal solvent that can transform any substance into gold.
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Many alchemists believed that discovering azoth would unlock the secret to changing base metals into precious ones.
Synonyms
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A magical medicine believed to cure all illnesses and make people live forever
A liquid people long ago believed could dissolve anything
A thing thought to have magical or healing powers in old alchemy
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word azoth comes from an old Arabic name al-zābūq, which means 'mercury', the liquid metal alchemists prized. They imagined azoth as a single 'universal' fluid or 'universal medicine' that could change or heal anything, so the word came to mean a magical transformer or cure.