Alchemy vs Alchemystical - What's the difference?
alchemy | alchemystical |
(label) The ancient search for a universal panacea, and of the philosopher's stone, that eventually developed into chemistry.
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, title= (label) The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.
Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.
(rare) Pertaining to alchemy.
* 2006 , Marsha Keith Schuchard, Why Mrs Blake Cried , Pimlico 2007, p. 69:
As a noun alchemy
is the ancient search for a universal panacea, and of the philosopher's stone, that eventually developed into chemistry.As an adjective alchemystical is
pertaining to alchemy.alchemy
English
(wikipedia alchemy)Noun
Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy .}}
Derived terms
* alchemical * alchemise and alchemize * alchemist * alchemistic * alchemisticalSee also
* elixir of life * philosophers' stoneReferences
* *alchemystical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Swedenborg was stimulated by the alchemystical notions of both men, and he began to move beyond the natural to the supernatural sciences.