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
When the wind blows on my face, what matter that the chymist pulls it to pieces?
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various
Here comes the good lady, panting ripe, with a heart full of hope, and a head full of care, like any chymist upon the day of projection.
From The Way of the World by William Congreve
The old-fashioned spelling was "chymist," and there are still one or two shops in London where this spelling holds, but I think it's affectation.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
