As nouns the difference between chymist and rhymist
is that chymist is while rhymist is one who rhymes.
chymist
English
Noun
(
en noun)
*1661 , ):
*:...them that confine themselves to deduce things from Salt, Sulphur and Mercury, and the other Notions peculiar to the Chymists ...
rhymist
English
Noun
(
en noun)
One who rhymes
* 1774, Dr Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Works of the English Poets , J. Nichols, Volume II, Page 139,
- "His character of Dryden, who sometimes visited him, was, that he was a good rhymist , but no poet."