spagyric

American  

[spuh-jeer-ik] / spəˈdʒɪər ɪk /

Sometimes spagyrical

adjective

1. pertaining to or resembling alchemy; alchemic.

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spagyric British  

/ spəˈdʒɪrɪk /

adjective

1. rare of or relating to alchemy

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Other Word Forms

• spagyrically adverb

Etymology

Origin of spagyric

First recorded in 1550–1600; from New Latin spagiricus, used and probably coined by Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus

Example Sentences

Examine it by spagyric art, and you will find that it is nothing else than a nitrous salt, which is dilated in the water.

From Project Gutenberg

He saw the true gold into which the beggarly matter of existence may be transmuted by spagyric art; a succession of delicious moments, all the rare flavors of life concentrated, purged of their lees, and preserved in a beautiful vessel.

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"Here are some of my doings," he said, "which are proof enough that the spagyric art is not the dream of an empty brain."

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That old spagyric raven is not the man fit for such a beauty, and I am rather inclined to take an interest in her myself.

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"Zosimus, sir, Zosimus of Panopolis, was a learned Greek, who flourished at Alexandria in the third century of the Christian era, and wrote treatises on the spagyric art."

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