Alchemy is both a philosophy and a practice with an aim of achieving ultimate wisdom as well as immortality, involving the improvement of the alchemist as well as the making of several substances described as possessing unusual properties.
alchemy (noun)
a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times
Hypernyms
- pseudoscience
an activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions
- pseudoscience
Derivationally Related Forms
- alchemic, alchemical
related to or concerned with alchemy - alchemist
one who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone - alchemic, alchemical
related to or concerned with alchemy - alchemize, alchemise
alter (elements) by alchemy
- alchemic, alchemical
Member of Domain
- athanor
a furnace that feeds itself so as to maintain a uniform temperature
- athanor
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