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† aˈdeptist [f. adept a. + -ist.] A professed adept, a skilled alchemist.
1662J. Chandler Helmont's Oriatrike 2 Hypocrates, a man of a most rare gift, and a partaker with the Adeptists. 1671J. Webster Metallogr. i. 16 Lock'd up in the breasts of a few mystical authors or Adeptists. 1715Kersey Adepts or Adeptists, the obtaining sons of art, who are said to have found out the grand elixir, commonly called the philosopher's stone. |