= alchemist, n.

A person who studies or practises alchemy.

An alchemist, (perhaps) one who prepared or used the metallic composition ‘alchemy’ (see alchemy, n. 2).

A person skilled in chemistry or (in early use) alchemy; a person who makes chemical investigations; (in later use) a student of chemistry, a…

A person who engages in the practice or study of chemistry or (in early use) alchemy; a person who makes chemical investigations; an expert or…

A person who works with fire or intense heat, esp. as a blacksmith or in a chemical or manufacturing process. Now rare.

An alchemist.

Usually in plural, with the. A person who has attained knowledge of the secrets of alchemy, magic, and the occult, (now esp.) an initiate into the…

One who treats of the ‘four elements’.

An alchemist.

Used allusively of a person resembling Hermes Trismegistos.

A person who has attained knowledge of the secrets of alchemy, magic, and the occult, esp. a skilled alchemist. Cf. adept, n. 1, adeptus, n.

Originally: a person who has attained knowledge of the secrets of alchemy, magic, and the occult, (now esp.) an initiate into the secrets of a…

One who or that which transmutes.

a person who combines astrology and alchemy.