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athanor

[ath-uh-nawr]
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noun Alchemy.
  1. a digester furnace with a self-feeding fuel supply contained in a towerlike contrivance, ensuring a constant, durable temperature.
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Origin of athanor

1425–75; late Middle English ≪ Arabic at tannūr the furnace
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Historical Examples

  • A, shows an athanor (or digesting furnace) and a couple of digesting vessels.

    Alchemy: Ancient and Modern

    H. Stanley Redgrove

  • The draught affects the furnace—my Athanor, as we adepts term it.

    Auriol

    W. Harrison Ainsworth

  • We know of the athanor of the alchemists of the middle ages.

    Inventions in the Century

    William Henry Doolittle

  • Or Athanor, a chemical stove, which works on for a long time without poking.

    Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2)

    Jean Paul Friedrich Richter