chymistry
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At noon to the Coffee-house, were with Dr. Allen some good discourse about physick and chymistry.
From The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Richard Griffin, Baron Braybrooke
There "he diverted himself with chymistry and the professor's good conversation."
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Anne MacDonell
It is not so in chymistry and mathematics.
From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Robert Browning
He was a chymist, as far as chymistry went in those dayes, and 'tis very likely he was a favorite of her honour's.
From The Natural History of Wiltshire by John Aubrey
Among the smaller paradoxes of the day is that of the Times newspaper, which always spells it chymistry: but so, I believe, do Johnson, Walker, and others.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith
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