单词 | adeptical |
释义 | adepticaladj. rare after 17th cent. Of or relating to the work of adepts (adept n. 1), esp. alchemists. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > [adjective] curiousc1384 mystical1516 cabbalisticala1593 occult1593 hermetical1605 cabbalistic1625 hermetica1637 adeptical1662 trismegistic1678 trismegistical1678 trismegistian1694 Sibylline1817 Sibyllica1849 occultist1893 widdershins1926 the world > matter > alchemy > [adjective] > alchemist alchemistical1559 chemical1599 spagyrical1652 adeptical1662 arch-chemic1667 alchemistic1689 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 157 They who study in Adepticall things [L. qui student adeptis], do strive to promote their labour of wisdom by the objects of sight. 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 7 Medicine Adeptical [L. Medicinae Adeptae]. 1685 G. C. tr. J. S. Weidenfeld Secrets Adepts xiv. 217 Lest therefore you should fall into the greatest and most dangerous Errour of all the Adeptical Chymy [L. Chymiae adeptae], we thought it good to communicate to you an Observation or two about the permanence of Menstruums. 1801 F. Barrett Magus i. ii. 26 According to the Adeptical philosophy, the toad bears an hatred to man. 2003 S. Menn tr. E. de Clave in J. Miller & B. Inwood Hellenistic & Early Mod. Philos. vii. 189 Firmly believing every good gift to come down from the father of Lights..and rather also, that of Medicine Adeptical. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1662 |
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