| 单词 | adept philosopher |
| 释义 | > as lemmasadept philosopher 1. That has attained knowledge of the secrets of alchemy, magic, and the occult. Frequently in adept philosopher. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1650 T. Vaughan Magia Adamica 135 I knew a Gentleman, who meeting with a Philosopher Adept, and receiving so much Courtesie as to be admitted to Discourse, attended his first Instructions passing well. 1657 H. Pinnell tr. Crollius Philos. Reformed 186 And therefore it is to no purpose to tempt an Adept Phylosopher [L. Adeptum Philosophum] with promises of rewards. a1691 R. Boyle Wks. (1772) I. 590 If there be really such adept philosophers as we are told of. 1821 European Mag. & London Rev. Apr. 333/2 What I have read in Paracelsus, Helmont, Basilius, Sandivogius, and like books of adept philosophers extant. 1911 A. E. Waite Pict. Key to Tarot ii. 61 The mystery of what is called the mystical or arch-natural elixir, being the marriage of the soul and the spirit in the body of the adept philosopher and the transmutation of the body as the physical result of this marriage. 2001 B. H. Traister Notorious Astrol. Physician London v. 109 He was learning the basics of magic, but he was not yet an adept magus. < as lemmas |
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