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ˈspagyrist
Also 7–8 spagirist.
[ad. mod.L. spagirista (F. spagiriste): see spagyric a.]
An alchemist.
α1652J. Wright tr. Camus' Nat. Paradox xi. 280 The Spagirists in seeking the Union of Essences have..found out the dissolving of all naturall Bodies. 1660J. H[arding] Basil. Valent. Chariot Antim. 1 A brief admonition concerning some Præcognita, which a Spagirist..ought to be acquainted with. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey).
β1661Boyle (title), The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrists' Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical. 1675Phil. Trans. X. 516 Those Spagyrists that possess or aspire to the nobler Arcana of Gold and Mercury. 1756T. Amory J. Buncle (1825) I. 266 A man of great skill in the labours and operations of spagyrists.
So ˈspagyrite. rare.
1666Boyle Orig. Forms & Qual. 58 Other things which Spagyrites obtaine from mixt Bodies. 1697Evelyn Numismata ix. 328 A troop of Spagirits. |