alchemical
adjEtymology From alchemy + -ical.
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Alchemy, Pseudoscience Of or pertaining to the medieval chemical science and philosophy of alchemy.
- [Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2025:
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Of or pertaining to an unexplainable transmutation.
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Of or pertaining to the creation of something special out of a common material.
- Derived terms
- alchemically, nonalchemical, unalchemical