athanor
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of athanor
1425–75; late Middle English ≪ Arabic at tannūr the furnace
Example Sentences
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None of us would have admitted that we believed in stone or elixir, the old Oxfordshire clergyman excited no belief, yet one among us certainly laboured with crucible or athanor.
From The Trembling of the Veil by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
From documents which we posses we can see his supervising the construction of the athanor, or alchemists' furnace, buying pelicans, crucibles, and retorts.
From Là-bas by Keene Wallace
We know of the athanor of the alchemists of the middle ages.
From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
My son," M. d'Asterac began to say again, "you do not sufficiently feed the athanor.
From The Queen Pedauque by Jos. A. V. Stritzko
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