Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or resembling alchemy; alchemical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Chemical; alchemical.
- noun obsolete A spagyrist.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
alchemical methods of makingherbal medicines , such as addingash of a burned plant to anextract thereof. - noun obsolete A
spagyrist .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Examine it by spagyric art, and you will find that it is nothing else than a _nitrous salt_, which is dilated in the water.
Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman
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As Paracelsus himself says of the true "spagyric physicians," who were the alchemists of his period.
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In contradistinction to Galenic medicines, which were largely derived from the vegetable kingdom, from this time on we find in the literature references to spagyric medicines and a "spagyrist" was a Paracelsian who regarded chemistry as the basis of all medical knowledge.
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He saw the true gold into which the beggarly matter of existence may be transmuted by spagyric art; a succession of delicious moments, all the rare flavors of life concentrated, purged of their lees, and preserved in a beautiful vessel.
The Hill of Dreams Arthur Machen 1905
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In contradistinction to Galenic medicines, which were largely derived from the vegetable kingdom, from this time on we find in the literature references to spagyric medicines and a "spagyrist" was a Paracelsian who regarded chemistry as the basis of all medical knowledge.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 William Osler 1884
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That old spagyric raven is not the man fit for such a beauty, and I am rather inclined to take an interest in her myself.
The Queen Pedauque Anatole France 1884
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"Zosimus, sir, Zosimus of Panopolis, was a learned Greek, who flourished at Alexandria in the third century of the Christian era, and wrote treatises on the spagyric art."
The Queen Pedauque Anatole France 1884
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"Here are some of my doings," he said, "which are proof enough that the spagyric art is not the dream of an empty brain."
The Queen Pedauque Anatole France 1884
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Let us add that at that epoch the edict of Charles interdicting spagyric labours under pain of prison and hanging, and the bull, _Spondent pariter quas non exhibent_, which Pope
Là-bas Keene [Translator] Wallace 1877
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Stuff and nonsense all these globes and powders, with all the other follies of the cabala and the spagyric art. "
The Queen Pedauque Anatole France 1884
tim_retep commented on the word spagyric
spagyric - relating to or resembling alchemy
August 7, 2009