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stone1390

spec. = philosophers' stone, n.

philosophers' stonea1393

A mythical solid substance, supposed to change any metal into gold or silver and (according to some) to cure all wounds and diseases and prolong…

vegetativec1450

Designating one of the several varieties of the philosophers' stone; cf. vegetable stone n. at vegetable, adj. compounds 2. Obsolete.

ferment1471

spec. in Alchemy (cf. fermentation, n. 1b); sometimes applied to the ‘philosopher's stone’. Also in cosmological speculations (see quot. 1677).

egg of philosophersc1484

= philosophers' stone, n. 1. Cf. philosophers' egg n. at compounds 3, philosophical egg n. at philosophical, adj. n.compounds.

vegetable stonea1500

a variety of the philosophers' stone.

vegetant stone1576

That gives life; animating, invigorating. Obsolete. rare.

philosophical stone1581

= philosophers' stone, n. 1.

elixir1605

A supposed drug or essence with the property of indefinitely prolonging life; imagined by the alchemists to be either identical with, or closely…

philosophers' work1612

= philosophers' stone, n. 1.

philosophic stone1647

= philosophers' stone, n. 1.

water stone of the wise men1649

Alchemy. water stone of the wise men: a kind of philosophers' stone (philosophers' stone, n. 1a). Obsolete. rare.

elixir of youth1725

a preparation supposedly able to prolong youthfulness or to reverse the ageing process; (also figurative) something that gives a person vitality…

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