chymistry
noun
an archaic variant of chemistry.
chymist
-
a word derived from
chymistry.
Example Sentences
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He soaked the stones in distilled wine and roasted them over oak charcoal, per the instructions of 17th-century chymist Wilhelm Homberg.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2018
This is found in a single-sheet advertisement, printed in 1665, in which a "chymist" offers for sale "certain medicynes for the cure and prevention of the plague at cheap rates".
From The Guardian ● Jul. 4, 2013
The principles of these sciences, and a taste for books of natural history, contributed to multiply my ideas and images; and the anatomist and chymist may sometimes track me in their own snow.
From Memoirs of My Life and Writings by Edward Gibbon
I'll maintain him to be as absolutely and substantially mad as any freeholder in Bethlehem; nay, he's as mad as any projector, fanatic, chymist, lover, or poet in Europe.
From Love for Love: a Comedy by William Congreve
When the wind blows on my face, what matter that the chymist pulls it to pieces!
From The Marquis of Lossie by George MacDonald
