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alchemize, v.|ˈælkɪmaɪz|
Forms: 7 alcumise, -ize, 7–9 alchymize, 7– alchemise, -ize.
[f. alchem-ist, which on analogy of words in -ist, implied a vb. in -ize. Cf. baptist and baptize.]
To change, as by alchemy; to transmute.
1603H. Crosse Vertue's Commonw. (1878) 43 The Artificer [would] Alcumize his Instruments into gold. 1683tr. Erasmus Mor. Encom. 94 These subtleties are Alchymized to a more refined Sublimate. 1850Mrs. Browning Poems II. 231 Darkly brown thy body is, Till the sunshine, striking this [i.e. the hair], Alchemise its dulness. |