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Definition of Alchymies
1. alchymy [n] - See also: alchymy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alchymies
Literary usage of Alchymies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)
"... and alchymies — which could bring the man of to-day so diametrically opposite
to the same man of yesterday ; and cause the Singleton Snippe of the past ..."
2. A Phonographic Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language: Abridged from by William Bolles (1846)
"( pL alchymies), tliat part of chemistry which proposée the transmutation of metala.
Alcohol, âl-kô-hó!, n. a hiph rectified spirit, ..."
3. Charcoal Sketches by Joseph Clay Neal, Alice Bradley Haven, Felix Octavius Carr Darley (1848)
"... and alchymies — which could bring the man of to-day so diametrically opposite
to the same man of yesterday ; and cause the Singleton Snippe of the past ..."