alchemist

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The highest aim of the alchemist was the evolution of a divine and immortal being out of a mortal and semi-animal man; the development, in short, of all those hidden properties which lie latent in man's nature That is a very valuable thing to know," observed Austin, greatly interested.

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  1. noun A practitioner of alchemy.

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  • Auntie, I want to be an alchemist, a geo-alchemist on a wizard's team. —  Harpy Thyme
  • Of course I said, Lord Jeffrey, De Quincey, Samuel Brown, called the alchemist by chemists, and a few others. —  Authors and Friends
  • The owner of the powder is an alchemist, and his traveling companion is a mysterious, exotic woman named Aditi -- a servant of the Goddess, an almost-daughter. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 06 - December 1996
  • I would not invite a creationist to a debate on campus for the same reason that I would not invite an alchemist, a flat-earther, an astrologer, a psychic, or a Holocaust revisionist. —  SteveAudio
  • The idea that there must be a drug for every disease was proposed by the Renaissance physician and alchemist, Paracelsus. —  Signs of the Times
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  1. Early modern English alchymist, alchimist, alcumist, alkemyste (also with added term, -er, *alchemister, alchymister, alchimister, from Middle English alcamister, alkamystere, alkamystre), from Old French alkemiste, alquemiste, modern F. alchimiste = Spanish alquimista = Portuguese Italian alchimista, from Middle Latin alchymista, from alchymia: see alchemy and -ist.
 

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