spagyricaladj.
1. Of or pertaining to alchemy.
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β. 1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iii. vii. 230 The vse of Hermeticall, Spagyricall, or Chymicall physicke.1651 J. French Art Distillation v. 118 The matter will be turned into a spagyricall bloud, and flesh, like an Embryo.1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 306 These Waters of Genoe, as far as I could gather by Spagyrical Solutions, have to their Sulphur an Addition both of Antimony and Nitre.1747 T. Birch Serm. before Coll. Physicians 22 To discern them may require no mean skill in spagyrical principles and operations.1594 H. Plat Diuers Chimicall Concl. Distillation 20 in Jewell House The perfecting of this branch of the spagirical art.
1594 H. Plat Jewell House 89 An infinite number of spagiricall experiments.
1651 R. Wittie tr. J. Primrose Pop. Errours iv. i. 204 It is certaine, that by this spagiricall art, the most unruly medicaments are made serviceable.
1654 ‘Chirosophus’ in E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot sig. *2 Which..was done With a Spagericall discretion.
2. Of persons: Given to the study or practice of alchemy; believing in alchemy.
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1652 (title) A Hermeticall Banqvet drest by a Spagiricall Cook, for the better preservation of the Microcosme.
1661 R. Boyle Sceptical Chymist i. 56 So justly did the Spagyricall Poet somewhere exclaim [etc.].
1667 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities (ed. 2) 338 If a Spagyrical Physician were Judge.
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