alchemical
炼金术,炼金,炼金术士,炼丹
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plural al·che·mies for 2, 3.
- : a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
- : any magical power or process of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value.
- : any seemingly magical process of transforming or combining elements into something new: Through some kind of alchemy he has reinvented himself as a writer.
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Alchemical songs that achieve pop universality through personal specificity.
Conservatives on Twitter howl derisively at these polls as if their purveyors are offering alchemical cures for venereal disease.
The Garden of Cyrus, with its arcane explorations of botany and geometry, may as well be an alchemical treatise or a grimoire.
Positive thoughts for yourself and others have a near alchemical transformative effect on your being.
In pursuing his alchemical researches, he discovered Prussian blue, and the animal oil which bears his name.
To behold “Diana unveiled” was equivalent in alchemical terminology to attaining the magnum opus.
That on the Continent it had descended through the Rosicrucians in an alchemical form seems more than probable.
Djafar may thus be considered as having solved the grand alchemical problem of obtaining gold in a potable state.
Moreover, no fact known respecting the pyramids or their builders is inconsistent with the astrological (and alchemical) theory.