alchemic
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- adjective
- /ælˈkɛmɪk/
- Literature
- Her studies focused on the alchemic transformations that turned base metals into gold.
Examples
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He discovered an alchemic manuscript that detailed the properties of various mystical substances.
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Oddly enough, both dreams fixate on the figure of the child as a small homunculus, as something created out of nothing in one sense, artificially, according to the alchemic tradition.
Academic text (2002) -
Gathering great quantities of alchemic elements.
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Great quantities of basic alchemic elements have been stolen at the times and places predicted.
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Find a room over water, a room big enough for an alchemic kitchen, workplace, and induction chamber.
Fiction book (2001) -
Abraxa, in the book Introduction to Magic, explained the alchemic technique of the mirror.
Blog text (17) -
The Just Dance video is shot to look like amateur pornography at a party; Poker Face is filled with alchemic images and debauchery.
Blog text (30) -
I assumed that Mister Storey would have refused us as spies but could never withhold mere information that could assist in the alchemic act of turning life into art.
Fiction book (1990) -
The ancient Egyptians practiced alchemic rituals in their pursuit of eternal life.
Synonyms
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About the old idea of turning metal into gold and the secret experiments to do that
About old ideas and experiments that try to change metals into gold
Relating to the old practice of trying to turn metals into gold
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word alchemic comes from alchemy, which itself comes from the Arabic parts al- and kīmiyā meaning 'the art of change'. So alchemic describes old ideas and practices about secret change, like trying to turn metal into gold or making strange potions, and it is the same root behind modern chemistry.