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Definition of Alchemist
1. Noun. One who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone.
Definition of Alchemist
1. n. One who practices alchemy.
Definition of Alchemist
1. Noun. One who practices alchemy. ¹
2. Noun. One who blends material or substances in the nature or supposed nature of alchemy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alchemist
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Medical Definition of Alchemist
1. One who practices alchemy. "You are alchemist; make gold." (Shak) Origin: Cf. OF. Alquemiste, F. Alchimiste. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alchemist
Literary usage of Alchemist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Representative English Plays: From the Middle Ages to the End of the by John Strong Perry Tatlock, Robert Grant Martin (1916)
"The alchemist is thoroughly typical of Jon- son's plays. In his preface he censures
the unrestrained extravagance of most of the dramatists, who he admits ..."
2. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"... The alchemist (1610), a wily charlatan, who dupes Sir Epicure Mammon and others
into the belief that he has discovered the secret of the philosopher's ..."
3. Eastward Hoe by George Chapman, John Marston, Ben Jonson, Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1903)
"SOURCES OF THE alchemist THE suggestion of a house misused in the master's absence,
with the situation resulting from his unexpected return, Jonson found in ..."
4. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1913)
"Der alchemist (translated into German by W. Graf von Baudissin in his Ben Jonson und
... The alchemist. (In Best Plays of Ben Jonson edited by B. Nicholson. ..."
5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"THE alchemist DRAMATIS PERSONS SUBTLE, the alchemist. FACK, the House-keeper.
DOL COMMON, their colleague. DAPPER, a Lawyer's clerk. ..."
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