单词 | alchemistical |
释义 | alchemisticaladj. = alchemistic adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > alchemy > [adjective] alchemical1559 alchemistical1559 alchemic1576 chemic1576 spagyrical1594 spagyric1596 alchymistrical1682 alchemistic1689 the world > matter > alchemy > [adjective] > alchemist alchemistical1559 chemical1599 spagyrical1652 adeptical1662 arch-chemic1667 alchemistic1689 1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 338 (heading) Of certaine other not Alchymisticall or not destilled or sublimated medicines. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxix Chaungeth leade into golde, farre exceadinge all the Alcumisticall multipliers that euer were. 1605 T. Bell Popes Funerall sig. D2 His Alchymisticall arte of changing truth into falsehood. a1652 A. Wilson Hist. Great Brit. (1653) f. 155 A new Alchimistical way to make Gold and Silver Lace, with Copper. 1755 Philos. Trans. 1754 (Royal Soc.) 48 835 Whatever may have been boasted by the alchymistical visionaries. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 274 The first sort of legislators attended to the different kinds of citizens.., the others, the metaphysical and alchemistical legislators, have taken the direct contrary course. View more context for this quotation 1829 Edinb. Rev. 50 257 The style is alchymistical, and therefore obscure. 1858 Cassell's Art Treasures Exhib. 294 Vandyck..impoverished himself in his alchemistical researches. 1904 Black & White 26 Nov. 764/2 And she's forty-three! The alchemistical forty-three, that turns the gold of life back into lead! 1950 Isis 41 22 The old alchemistical analogies were gradually deteriorating into mysticism. 2004 Bangor (Maine) Daily News (Nexis) 9 Sept. c1 Wilson loves the alchemistical process of turning mundane metal into a treasure. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1559 |
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