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Alchimy

AL'CHIMY, n. [See Chimistry.]
1. The more sublime and difficult part of chimistry, and chiefly such as relate to the transmutation of metals are gold, the finding a universal remedy for diseases, and an alkabest or universal solvent, and other things now treated as ridiculous. This pretended science was much cultivated in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but is now held in contempt.
2. formerly, a mixed metal used for utensils.
alchimy appears in definitions for these words:
Al Alchimic Alchimist Alchimistic Ochimy Projection Quintessence

 

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