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Definition of Alchemically

1. adv. In the manner of alchemy.

Definition of Alchemically

1. Adverb. In a manner relating to alchemy. ¹

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Definition of Alchemically

1. [adv]

Medical Definition of Alchemically

1. 1. An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry. 2. A mixed metal composed mainly of brass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet. "Put to their mouths the sounding alchemy." (Milton) 3. Miraculous power of transmuting something common into something precious. "Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy." (Shak) Origin: OF. Alkemie, arquemie, F. Alchimie, Ar. Al-kimia, fr. Late Gr, for, a mingling, infusion, juice, liquid, especially as extracted from plants, fr. To pour; for chemistry was originally the art of extracting the juices from plants for medicinal purposes. Cf. Sp. Alquimia, It. Alchimia. Gr. Is prob. Akin to L. Fundere to pour, Goth. Guitan, AS. Geotan, to pour, and so to E. Fuse. (04 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Alchemically

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Authority in the Modern State by Harold Joseph Laski, ( (1919)
"He erected, in fact, the negation of its principles into an alchemically mingled compound of antagonisms he chose to call a philosophy. ..."

2. The Candle of Vision by George William (I. Russell (1918)
"... or as ice melts and is alternately fluid, vapour, gas, and at last a radiant energy, so do these aethers become purified and alchemically ..."

3. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1917)
"Hav- mystically and alchemically by the Lion ing, moreover, to draw a line of demarcation (Mikael); the Bull (Suriel); the Dragon between the four and the ..."

4. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1844)
"... as it were, alchemically transmutes into blood the various material substances into which that fluid is analysable by the chemist,) being divorced from ..."

5. The Table Talk of John Selden by John Selden, Richard Milward (1892)
"Wedel Virgil's ' golden bough" alchemically, 155 «. Whitelock on Selden's speeches the Westminster Assembly, xviii. Wife, remarks on a handsome, 194. ..."

6. A Catalogue of the Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the University of by Cambridge University Library (1858)
"... of Hermes Trismegistus, treated alchemically. They are coarsely coloured, and from the ill-written blackletter explanations, may be supposed to be ..."

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