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One who practices alchemy.
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One who blends material or substances in the nature or supposed nature of alchemy.
Examples of alchemist in a Sentence
I thought that was that guy from full metal alchemist.
I highly recommend reading The alchemist before a major transition in your life- it could be at any age.
Old Manfred has proved over and over again that he has an alchemist 's touch.
An alchemist of words, in her hands cleverness is transmuted into poetry and passion.
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John, called the " Alchemist," who was born in 1403, had been disappointed in his hope of obtaining the vacant electoral duchy of Saxe-Wittenberg in 1423.
Rona is what every company is seeking a twenty-first century alchemist.
It must be noted that the processes described by the alchemists of the 13th century are not put forward as being miraculous or supernatural; they rather represent the methods employed by nature, which it is the end of the alchemist's art to reproduce artificially in the laboratory.
Feng was a Taoist alchemist who lived in the mountains during the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368 ).
Paracelsus, a 15th-century Swiss alchemist, extolled the rejuvenating value of mud from Austrian moors.
The alchemist is ' working upon things terrene or of too gross or heavy a substance ' .
Even the alchemist required a soror mystica, a mystical sister, to perform the opus.
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Fullmetal Alchemist - Skilled alchemist Edward Elric sets out after the mythical Philosopher's Stone and finds himself in the midst of political intrigue and complex moral dilemmas.
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Though an alchemist, Boyle, in his Sceptical Chemist (1661), cast doubts on the " experiments whereby vulgar Spagyrists are wont to endeavour to evince their salt, sulphur and mercury to be the true principles of things," and advanced towards the conception of chemical elements as those constituents of matter which cannot be further decomposed.
He himself was an alchemist; and believing the transmutation of metals to be a possibility, he carried out experiments in the hope of effecting it; and he was instrumental in obtaining the repeal, in 1689, of the statute of Henry IV.
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Such a Fountain of Youth would not only benefit the alchemist physically, but would make him powerful beyond competition, since he would be able to offer or withhold the secret of eternal life to whomever he wished.
The oxide known as white arsenic is mentioned by the Greek alchemist Olympiodorus, who obtained it by roasting arsenic sulphide.
There he presented himself to the grand master of the Maltese order as Count Cagliostro, and curried favour with him as a fellow alchemist, for the grand master's tastes lay in the same direction.
Regarding all substances as being composed of one primitive matter - the prima materia, and as owing their specific differences to the presence of different qualities imposed upon it, the alchemist hoped, by taking away these qualities, to obtain the prima materia itself, and then to get from it the particular substance he desired by the addition of the appropriate qualities.
He sold his share in the property in 1776 for £35,000, and took leave of the stage by playing a round of his favourite characters - Hamlet, Lear, Richard and Benedick, among Shakespearian parts; Lusignan in Zara, Aaron Hill's adaptation of Voltaire's Zaire; and Kitely in his own adaptation of Ben Jonson's Archer in Farquhar's Beaux' Stratagem; Abel Drugger in Ben Jonson's Alchemist; Sir John Brute in Vanbrugh's Provoked Wife; Leon in Fletcher's Rule a Wife and have a Wife.
For him chemistry was the science of the composition of substances, not merely an adjunct to the arts of the alchemist or the physician.