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alchemy 音標拼音: ['ælkəmi] n. 煉金術 煉金術 alchemy n 1: the way two individuals relate to each other; " their chemistry was wrong from the beginning -- they hated each other"; " a mysterious alchemy brought them together" [ synonym: { chemistry}, { interpersonal chemistry}, { alchemy}] 2: a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval timesAlchemy \ Al" che* my\, n. [ OF. alkemie, arquemie, F. alchimie, Ar. al- k[ imac] m[ imac] a, fr. late Gr. ?, for ?, a mingling, infusion, ? juice, liquid, especially as extracted from plants, fr. ? to pour; for chemistry was originally the art of extracting the juices from plants for medicinal purposes. Cf. Sp. alquimia, It. alchimia. Gr. ? is prob. akin to L. fundere to pour, Goth. guitan, AS. ge[' o] tan, to pour, and so to E. fuse. See { Fuse}, and cf. { Chemistry}.] 1. An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A mixed metal composed mainly of brass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Put to their mouths the sounding alchemy. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Miraculous power of transmuting something common into something precious. [ 1913 Webster] Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Alchymistic Alchymist Alchymic62 Moby Thesaurus words for " alchemy": about- face, assimilation, assumption, becoming, bewitchery, change, change- over, charm, conversion, divination, enchantment, fetishism, flip- flop, glamour, gramarye, growth, hoodoo, juju, jujuism, lapse, magic, natural magic, naturalization, necromancy, obeah, passage, progress, re- formation, reconversion, reduction, resolution, reversal, rune, shamanism, shift, sorcery, sortilege, spell, spellbinding, spellcasting, switch, switch- over, sympathetic magic, thaumaturgia, thaumaturgics, thaumaturgism, thaumaturgy, theurgy, transformation, transit, transition, turning into, vampirism, volte- face, voodoo, voodooism, wanga, white magic, witchcraft, witchery, witchwork, wizardry
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