chymistry
- noun
- Archaic
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química
- The study of chymistry laid the groundwork for modern scientific practices in chemistry.
- nice chymistry
Examples
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In his Dictionary, Dr. Samuel Johnson defined "Alchymy" as "the more sublime and occult part of chymistry, which proposes for its object the transmutation of metals and other important operations."
Academic text (2015) -
What, then, did Reynolds and his contemporaries mean when they talked about the painter's "nice chymistry"?
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Chymistry gains without, alchymistry within.
Fiction book (1991) -
He recommends to the painter as "chymistry" the very chrysopoetic ambition that had become alchemy's defining attribute.
Academic text (2015) -
I think Baxandall's terms offer an instructive model for grappling with Reynolds's "nice chymistry" and the alchemical penumbra of period response.
Academic text (2015) -
By borrowing, stealing, and appropriating from as many traditions as possible, Reynolds urges, the cunning, magpie-like artist has to become a chemical scatologist: "He will pick up from dunghills what by a nice chymistry, passing through his own mind, shall be converted into pure gold." 22 #
Academic text (2015) -
In medieval times, many believed that chymistry could turn base metals into gold.
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Alchemists practiced chymistry as they sought to unlock the secrets of nature.
Synonyms
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A science that studies what things are made of and how they change
Surface Forms
Etymology
Chymistry is an old form of chemistry and comes from the same root as alchemy, the old art of trying to 'change' metals into gold. So, chymistry meant the early mix of experiments and magical ideas that later became modern chemistry.