alchemist

From Old French alquemiste (French alchimiste), from Medieval Latin alchemista. Equivalent to alchemy +‎ -ist.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæl.kə.mɪst/

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• Hyphenation: al‧che‧mist

alchemist (plural alchemists)

1. One who practices alchemy.
   • 2017, Bob Berman, Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 73:

     Years later, scientists learned that the sun’s light—visible and invisible—is merely the by-product of a process alchemists had vainly tried to reproduce for centuries—the transmutation of one element into another. That nature accomplishes this before our very eyes, and that it is what creates the solar heat and light that supports all life, was suspected by no one. The revelation came as a complete surprise.

2. One who blends material or substances in the nature or supposed nature of alchemy.

• See Thesaurus:alchemist

• alchemistic
• alchemistical

• alchemical
• alchemy

• elixir, elixir of life
• philosophers' stone, philosopher's stone

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• IPA^(key): /ˌɑl.xəˈmɪst/, /ˌɑl.xeːˈmɪst/

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• Hyphenation: al‧che‧mist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

alchemist m (plural alchemisten, diminutive alchemistje n)

1. alchemist

• alchemie