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Definitions of alchemy in various dictionaries:
noun - the way two individuals relate to each other
noun - a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times
A medieval chemical philosophy having as its asserted aims the transmutation of base metals into gold, the discovery of the panacea, and the preparation of the elixir of longevity.
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| Back in the Middle Ages, the aim of this practice was to change base metals into gold |
| This art of transmuting metals broke up into branches; the esoterics drew away from lab practices |
| A type of medieval chemistry, it aimed in part to transmute base metals into gold |
| Capocchio & Griffolino of Arezzo are damned to Hell for being falsifiers of metal using this process |
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| the medieval forerunner of chemistry, concerned with the transmutation of matter, in particular with attempts to convert base metals into gold or find a universal elixir. |
| The medieval forerunner of chemistry, concerned with the transmutation of matter, in particular with attempts to convert base metals into gold or find a universal elixir. |
| A medieval chemical philosophy having as its asserted aims the transmutation of base metals into gold, the discovery of the panacea, and the preparation of the elixir of longevity. |
| A seemingly magical power or process of transmuting: "He wondered by what alchemy it was changed, so that what sickened him one hour, maddened him with hunger the next ( Marjorie K. Rawlings). |
| a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times |
| the way two individuals relate to each other |
| a type of chemistry, especially in the Middle Ages, that dealt with trying to find a way to change ordinary metals into gold and with trying to find a medicine that would cure any disease |
| a process that is so effective that it seems like magic: |
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Alchemy is a philosophical and protoscientific tradition practiced throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia. It aimed to purify, mature, and perfect certain objects. Common aims were chrysopoeia, the transmutation of "base metals" (e.g., lead) into "noble metals" (particularly gold); the creation of an elixir of immortality; the creation of panaceas able to cure any disease; and the development of an alkahest, a universal solvent. The perfection of the human body and soul was thought to permit or result from the alchemical magnum opus and, in the Hellenistic and western tradition, the achievement of gnosis. In Europe, the creation of a philosopher's stone was variously connected with all of these projects. * In English, the term is often limited to descriptions of European alchemy, but similar practices existed in the Far East, the Indian subcontinent, and the Muslim world. In Europe, following the 12th-century Renaissance produced by the translation of Islamic works on science and the Recove |