alchemical

adj

Etymology

From alchemy + -ical.

  1. derived from χυμείᾱ — “art of alloying metals
  2. derived from كيمياء
  3. derived from alchēmia
  4. derived from alkimie
  5. formed as alchemical — “alchemy + -ical

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to the medieval chemical science and philosophy of alchemy.

    • [Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.
  2. Of or pertaining to an unexplainable transmutation.

  3. Of or pertaining to the creation of something special out of a common material.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for alchemical. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA