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1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. M2^v Out of boanes after the meate was eaten off, hee would alchumize an oyle, that he sold for a shilling a dramme.

1603 H. Crosse Vertues Common-wealth sig. F4 The Artificer [would] Alcumize his Instruments into gold.

a1658 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Posthume Poems (1659) 7 Not that you feared the discolo'ring cold, Might alchymize their Silver into Gold.

1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 94 These subtleties are Alchymized to a more refined Sublimate.

1800 A. Bishop Connecticut Republicanism 30 Wealth and talents are like the mines of Peru to crowned heads: they know well how to seek, alchymize and improve their treasures.

1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) II. 231 Darkly brown thy body is, Till the sunshine, striking this [i.e. the hair], Alchemise its dulness.

1920 F. Blunden Waggoner 67 He most craftily brings out of death the loveliest looks of life, and from corruption alchemizes beauty.

1976 A. Ginsberg in New Age Jrnl. Apr. 28/2 I just sent for a shipload of tears from Indo-China but it didn't seem to do any good. Can you help, do you have any magic formulae for alchemizing the situation?

2009 Daily Tel. 6 Nov. 35/4 Together, she and Watson alchemise the work's excesses into a giddily seductive whole.