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alchemistical, a.|ælkɪˈmɪstɪkəl| Also 6 alcum-, 7 alchim-, 7–9 alchymistical. [f. alchemist + -ical. In earlier use than alchemistic.] Of or relating to alchemists, or to their pursuits.
1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 119 b, Chaungeth leade into golde, farre exceadinge all the Alcumisticall multipliers that euer were. 1653A. Wilson James I, 155 A new Alchimistical way to make Gold and Silver Lace with Copper. 1754Huxham in Phil. Trans. XLVIII. 835 Whatever may have been boasted by the alchymistical visionaries. 1829Edin. Rev. L. 257 The style is alchymistical, and therefore obscure. 1858Cassell's Art Treas. 294 Vandyck..impoverished himself in his alchemistical researches. |