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- noun Plural form of
chymist .
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Examples
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The European chymists have since reasoned upon fermentation; each of them has produced a new system; none have been able to bring it to a regular demonstration; and the learned Gay
The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain Anthony Boucherie
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Oxford, 1623, 4to; the latter of which, a keen satire against the chymists 'aurum potabile, is exceedingly rare.
Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster Thomas Potts
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From the experiments of one of the most learned chymists of Europe, it has been demonstrated, that the proportions the most advantageous to the formation of a good vinous liquor, are, one part of dry sweet substance to four parts of water; that is, that the sugar must form one fifth of the whole.
The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain Anthony Boucherie
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Helen, for that matter, and Medea, and Calypso, and the great antique women, who were all excellent chymists.
The Purple Cloud 1906
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Plain folk, who sold drugs when I was a boy, were not ashamed to be called druggists, but now they are pharmaceutical chymists, and analytical Homoeopathists; and one is tempted to quote Canning's paraphrase, which he made when Dr. Addington had been complimenting the country party, "I do remember an apothecary, gulling of simples."
The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900
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'Why, Sir, for making a furnace for the chymists for melting iron.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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As for the president, we would have him reserved for a nobler purpose; we would have him boiled down to soap, according to the plan recommended by the French chymists, to be used by his successor in scouring the constitution and the minds of the people.
Sheppard Lee 1836
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Would the beasts of the field study astronomy, or turn chymists, and try experiments in nature?
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 06. 1630-1694 1820
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The chymists have laudably reduced their causes -- (of colors) -- unto
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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A part of the tube that conducts the inflammable air, carries off, out of doors, the produce of this combustion, which, nevertheless, according to the experiments of modern chymists, can scarcely be any thing more than an aqueous vapour.
Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798
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