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spagyric

spagyric

9.9
A medicine made from plants using old alchemy methods
  • noun
  • /spəˈdʒɪrɪk/
  • Archaic
: espagiria
  • Many practitioners believe that spagyric preparations can enhance physical and spiritual healing.

Examples

  • The nucleus of spagyric mystery is life, and the glorious key thereto is Light, whose gleaming ore the alchymist exposes.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Thousands proclaim themselves Adept who have dealt little with spagyric matter.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • The herbalist created a spagyric tincture by carefully separating and recombining the plant's ingredients.

  • In ancient texts, spagyric methods were often described as sacred processes for making potent remedies.

Synonyms

tincture
vsspagyric
  • Specialized
4 8.1

A medicine made by dissolving a plant or drug in alcohol

is created using alchemical separation and recombining methods

Surface Forms

spagyric singular
spagyries plural

Morphology

spagyric = spagyr + ic

Although formed with the adjectival/derivational suffix '-ic', the root 'spagyr-' is obscure to learners and the specialized medicinal sense cannot be predicted from the parts.

Etymology

A spagyric as a medicine takes its name from Greek spao ('to draw out') and ageiro ('to gather'). The name shows the process: healers separate parts of a plant to get the good stuff and then join them again, so a spagyric is a remedy made by those alchemical steps.