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
I told Mr. Robert Boyle this receipt, and he did much admire it, and tooke a copie of it, and sayd that he that was the inventor of it was a good chymist.
From The Natural History of Wiltshire by Aubrey, John
I finds the yerb, an' the chymist gits the credit.
From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Corelli, Marie
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 Congreve, William
