chymistry
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- chymic adjective
- chymist noun
Example Sentences
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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 Blagdon, Francis W.
There "he diverted himself with chymistry and the professor's good conversation."
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne
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 Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
Boyle made the air-pump a means of advancing the science of pneumatics, and became the founder of experimental chymistry.
From History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 by Green, John Richard
Nothing is more boasted by the admirers of chymistry, than that they can, by artificial heats and digestion, imitate the productions of nature.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons by Johnson, Samuel
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