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Definition of Chymic
1. chemic [n -S] - See also: chemic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chymic
Literary usage of Chymic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art of Dyeing All Colors on Raw Cotton Or Cotton Waste, for the Purpose by Richard Gibson (1861)
"chymic, OB COMPOUND. Sulphate of Indigo is not applicable, as a Color, to Wool
that has to go through the process of Scouring and Fulling; but there is a ..."
2. Sonnets and Poems by John Masefield (1916)
"Is all this beauty that doth inhabit heaven Train of a planet's fire ? Is all
this lust A chymic means by warring stars ..."
3. The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets by Samuel Johnson (1896)
"So, though the chymic his great secret miss, (For neither it in Art nor Nature
is) Yet things well worth his toil he gains : And does his charge and labour ..."
4. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.: A New Ed., in Twelve Volumes, to which by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1820)
"So, though the chymic his great secret miss (For neither it in art or nature is),
... And as no chymic yet th' elixir got, But glorifies his pregnant pot, ..."
5. The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Although I think thou never found wilt he, Yet I'm resolv'd to search for thee;
The search itself rewards the pains. So, though the chymic his great ..."
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