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alchemist

/al-kuh-mist/US // ˈæl kə mɪst //UK // (ˈælkəmɪst) //

炼金术士,炼金术师,炼金师,炼丹师

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who is versed in or practices alchemy.

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Examples

  • Book after book, the famous alchemist Paulo Coelho has transmuted leaden cliches into publishing gold.

  • Ever since, this mathematical form has signified the extraterrestrial, and it became a beloved symbol of alchemists and astrologists.

  • Baldwin becomes a social and spiritual alchemist by blending rage with love.

  • Well, he was no Svengali, no alchemist and, obviously, they would have happened without him.

  • Think of story and character as the tools of an alchemist, not those of a builder.

  • I feel like they are the alchemist of the tuber world; they make everything from smooth, soft purees to beautiful crunchy pickles.

  • With the masked, shape-changing American alchemist, it is impossible to know too much for sure.

  • A chemist would regard it as waste of time to discuss his science with an alchemist.

  • The emphatic al places the alchemist as much above the ordinary chemist as the gold which he obtains is superior to other metals.

  • This celebrated alchemist lived to be one hundred and thirty years old,—an age which some biographers give to Marion de Lorme.

  • At this period the alchemist is represented by his descendant as a Puritan impregnated with the secret doctrine of Robert Fludd.

  • Orschall still accepted the old alchemist tradition but was sound in practice and was the best authority on copper.