chemistical
English
Alternative forms
- chymistical
Etymology
From chemist + -ical.
Adjective
chemistical (comparative more chemistical, superlative most chemistical)
- (obsolete) Chemical.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection iv:
- Paracelsus and his chymistical followers, as so many Promethei, will fetch fire from heaven, will cure all manner of diseases with minerals, accounting them the only physick on the other side.
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Anagrams
- alchemistic