Alchemist

Word ALCHEMIST
Character 9
Hyphenation al che mist
Pronunciations /ˈæl.kə.mɪst/

Definitions and meanings of "Alchemist"

What do we mean by alchemist?

A practitioner of alchemy. noun

One who practises or is versed in alchemy. Formerly also spelled alchymist. noun

One who practices alchemy. noun

One who practices alchemy. noun

One who blends material or substances in the nature or supposed nature of alchemy. 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 noun

One who practices alchemy.

One who blends material or substances in the nature or supposed nature of alchemy.

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The word "alchemist" in example sentences

Whether Jabir counts as scientist or alchemist is an open question: within a generation, real science, intense scholarship and a palpable curiosity about the physical world began to emerge. ❋ Tim Radford (2010)

The word alchemist suddenly recalled the Archdeacon Claude Frollo to his mind. ❋ Unknown (1917)

I wondered if from one of those dark windows she were looking forth anxiously for succour, and I called the alchemist to my side and bade him send up a fire balloon as a signal that help was at hand. ❋ Unknown (1886)

It appears more probable, however, either that Lully the alchemist was a personage distinct from the Lully whose life we have sketched above, or that the alchemistic writings attributed to him are forgeries of a similar nature to the works of pseudo-Geber (§ 32). ❋ Unknown (1922)

Samuel Brown, called the alchemist by chemists, and a few others. ❋ Fields, Annie, 1834-1915 (1896)

Brown, called the alchemist by chemists, and a few others. ❋ Annie Fields (1874)

Of all dreams, that of the alchemist is the most poetical, for he looked at the finest symbol. ❋ Margaret Fuller (1830)

In cases where self-interest and ambition are the basis of this peculiarity of temperament, and in an age when the conjuror and the alchemist were the companions and even the idols of princes, it is easy to trace the steps by which a gifted sage retains his ascendancy among the ignorant. ❋ David Brewster (1824)

Through a kind of alchemist's magic, the same sort of engine that was laboring to hold up the Boeing model could produce a comfortable margin of lifting power for Lockheed Martin. ❋ Unknown (2002)

But all who were worthy of the title of "alchemist" realised at times, more or less dimly, the possibility of the application of the same methods to man and the glorious result of the transmutation of man's soul into spiritual gold. ❋ Unknown (1922)

_A Plodding Student_ is a kind of alchemist or persecutor of Nature, that would change the dull lead of his brain into finer metal, with success many times as unprosperous, or at least not quitting the cost, to wit, of his own oil and candles. ❋ Percy Lubbock (1922)

The Prefect wished to know how the young man came to be acquainted with the "alchemist" of the police. ❋ Gaston Leroux (1897)

He even set up a kind of alchemist's laboratory to search experimentally for the panacea. ❋ Kuno Francke (1892)

To add more oddity to the subject the new book which is also another Paulo Coelho’s book entitled the alchemist which I incidentally I finished reading today is all about reading the omens. ❋ Unknown (2005)

At these moments, New is a kind of alchemist who is capable of turning the raw materials of the historian - "wanderings, guesses, luck and old glue," as she puts it - into the poet's gold. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Typically, the "alchemist" would perform a demonstration that rigged beforehand. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The highest aim of the alchemist was the evolution of a divine and immortal being out of a mortal and semi-animal man; the development, in short, of all those hidden properties which lie latent in man's nature. " ❋ Frederic H. Balfour (N/A)

He built one of the first radio receivers and at one time held the world record in distance over which ` wireless 'waves were detected, designed a time-apparatus capable of measuring time intervals of a hundred-thousandth of a second, designed and built the first modern smoke detector, as a pioneer in acoustic submarine detection, with W H Bragg, patented the first apparatus for determining the direction of submarine sound. atom and as the world's first successful "alchemist," changed neutron, naming them both, and provided the first nuclear model of the atom. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I didn't happen upon any evil witches, dwarfs or bands of merry men, but I did find an inspiring five-star chateau with a modern-day alchemist who gave me a secret elixir to ensure a long life. ❋ Pam Grout (2011)

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