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chymistry

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[kim-uh-stree] / ˈkɪm ə stri /

noun

Archaic.
  1. an archaic variant of chemistry.


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Of chymistry, so far as it relates to medicine, the Arabs may be considered as the inventors; and botany, in the same connexion, they cultivated with great success.

From History of the Moors of Spain by M. Florian

I know you have a love for chymistry, and Shakspeare, and natural history.

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Susan Warner

It comprehends mathematics, analysis applied to descriptive geometry and to the mechanism of solids and fluids, stereotomy, drawing, civil architecture, fortification, general physics, chymistry, mineralogy, and their application to the arts.

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Francis W. Blagdon

Goldsmith, writing to Langton in 1771, says: 'Mr. Beauclerk is now going directly forward to become a second Boyle; deep in chymistry and physics.'

From Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill

For twenty years he has delivered gratis public courses of chymistry and mineralogy.

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Francis W. Blagdon

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