athanor

• She keeps the delightful premise of Changer for the new book (living among us are athanor, immortal beings that we only know through myths and folktales), but uses much of the cast from the earlier novel. —  F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 01 - July 2000
• In fact, a strong and determined will can, in a little while, attain complete independence; and we all possess that chemical instrument, the great and single athanor or furnace, which serves to separate the subtile from the gross, and the fixed from the volatile. —  Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
• Part of this very barn, of which he always kept the key, was found to have been fitted up as a complete laboratory, with athanor, alembic, cucurbite, and other appliances, some of which the master destroyed at once--perhaps for the best--and which I have only been able to guess at Black Arts," I laughed Who knows?" —  The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
• Her athanor had been alight for fifteen years. —  The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
• "My son," M. d'Asterac began to say again, "you do not sufficiently feed the athanor. —  The Queen Pedauque

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