Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as alchemistic.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to alchemists.

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  • adjective of or relating to alchemists

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Examples

  • As the first sort of legislators attended to the different kinds of citizens, and combined them into one commonwealth, the others, the metaphysical and alchemistical legislators, have taken the direct contrary course.

    Paras. 300-324 1909

  • Boehme acquired a vocabulary of alchemistical terms which he was always labouring to turn to spiritual meaning, but which always baffled him.

    Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905

  • Under any circumstances, the preseason Power Rankings are a crapshoot, an alchemistical jumble of hard data and gut instincts.

    CNN.com 2011

  • As the first sort of legislators attended to the different kinds of citizens, and combined them into one commonwealth, the others, the metaphysical and alchemistical legislators, have taken the directly contrary course.

    The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

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