chymistry
noun
an archaic variant of chemistry.
chymic
-
a word derived from
chymistry.
Example Sentences
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I’m tired with waiting for this chymic gold, Which fools us young, and beggars us when old.”
From Letters on England by Voltaire
Hence, probably, came the adjective chyic or chymic, and, at a somewhat later time, the word chemia as the name of that art which deals with calcinations, fusions, meltings, and the like.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir
Where is the heart by chymic truth refined, The exploring soul whose eye had read mankind?
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
But against high chymic tests no sham can stand; and first it is too light in weight, and second, when rubbed on this Basanus or Black-stone, traces no line of white, as any diamond must.
From Moonfleet by John Meade Falkner
That happy minglement of hearts, Where, chang'd as chymic compounds are, Each with its own existence parts, To find a new one happier far!
From Thomas Moore by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
