单词 | spagyric |
释义 | spagyricn.adj. Obsolete exc. Historical. A. n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > alchemy > [noun] alchemyc1390 alchemistry1569 alchimistie1578 spagyric1593 chemistry1605 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 29 Yet who such monarches for Phisique, Chirurgery, Spagirique,..as some of these arrant Impostours? 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke iii. 183 Alchymie or Spagyrick..is the inuenter and schoolmistresse of distillation. 2. An alchemist. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > alchemy > [noun] > alchemist alchemisterc1405 alchemist?c1425 alkanamyer?c1475 chemic1559 chemist1559 vulcanist?1586 spagyric1593 adeptus1650 elementarist1651 spagyrist1652 trismegist1657 adeptist1662 spagyrite1666 adept1673 transmuter1826 astro-alchemist1876 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 162 The greatest Empiriques, Spagiriques, Cabalists,..and occult Philosophers. 1623 W. Drummond Cypresse Groue in Flowres of Sion 77 Can the spargiricke by his Arte restore for a space to the dry and withered Rose, the naturall Purple and Blush. 1645 Bp. J. Hall Remedy Discontentm. iv. 14 Like to some cunning Spagirick, that can intend or remit the heat of his furnace according to occasion. 1867 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 369 A traveller who saw the celebrated spagyric at the Hague, represents him as still adhering to his old spiritual tricks. B. adj. Pertaining to alchemy; alchemical. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > alchemy > [adjective] alchemical1559 alchemistical1559 alchemic1576 chemic1576 spagyrical1594 spagyric1596 alchymistrical1682 alchemistic1689 α. β. a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 23 As for the Chymique or Spagerique medicines I cannot commend them to the vse of my Posterity.1660 J. Harding tr. B. Valentine Triumphant Chariot Antimony 67 Antimony..being by Spagyrick Art transmuted, becomes medicinal.1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 395 Medicinally Charitable to the Publick by his Spagyrick Repositary.1844 B. G. Babington tr. J. F. C. Hecker Epidemics Middle Ages (new ed.) 273 The severe metallic remedies of the Spagyric school.1899 Literature 18 Feb. 181 The sages, those who practised the true spagyric art.1596 J. Hester tr. Paracelsus Exper. & Cures F The Spagericke Antidotarie of the preparation and making of medicines against Goonshot. 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke iii. 153 They which are but meanely seene in the spargerick art, and haue been chymists a very short time. 1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked lxxiv. §706 At this day Spagirick, (or Hermetick,) Physick is in request. 1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Spagiric, belonging to alchymie, or to the chymical art. 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. vi. 280 Skilful in the Spagiric Art, as well as the Art of Medicine. 1833 T. Carlyle Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1872) V. 106 He is distributing spagiric food, medicine for the poor. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) II. 103 Medical practitioners of the old school, who denounced the spagiric method. 1891 Q. Rev. Oct. 408 The pretension to ‘spagiric’ immortality of Cagliostro. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1593 |
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