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Chemic - What does it mean?

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chemic

English

Alternative forms

* chymic * chymick

Adjective

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  • (archaic) Practising chemistry (or, earlier, alchemy); pertaining to these sciences.
  • (obsolete) Produced through alchemy; counterfeit.
  • * 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I.217:
    • a chymic treasure / Is glittering Youth, which I have spent betimes— / My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.
  • Chemical.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A chemist or (earlier) an alchemist.
  • * 1633 , John Donne, "The Comparison":
    • like the Chymicks masculine equall fire, / Which in the Lymbecks warme wombe doth inspire / Into th'earths worthlesse part a soule of gold
  • (obsolete) A solution of chloride of lime, used in bleaching.

    • Not English

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