spagyristn.
An alchemist.
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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
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β. 1661 Boyle (title) The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrists' Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical.1676 Philos. Trans. 1675 (Royal Soc.) 10 516 Those Spagyrists that possess or aspire to the nobler Arcana of Gold and Mercury.1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 262 A man of great skill in the labours and operations of spagyrists.1652 J. Wright tr. J.-P. Camus Nature's Paradox xi. 280 The Spagirists in seeking the Union of Essences have..found out the dissolving of all naturall Bodies.
1660 J. Harding tr. B. Valentine Triumphant Chariot Antimony 1 A brief admonition concerning some Præcognita, which a Spagirist..ought to be acquainted with.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.)
Derivatives
ˈspagyrite n. rare
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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
1666 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities 58 Other things which Spagyrites obtaine from mixt Bodies.
1697 J. Evelyn Numismata ix. 328 A Troop of Spagirits.
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