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Definition of "chemic" [chem•ic]

  • Chemical. (adjective)
  • Archaic Alchemic. (adjective)
  • Obsolete An alchemist. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "chemic" in a sentence
  • "Sometimes it is sold in this condition under the term "chemic," but if this be used in dyeing wool it gives rather unsatisfactory results."
  • "Life is vastly different from mere chemic matter fluxing in high modes of notion."
  • "Shave from me with sharp razors my lips, my nose, my ears -- ay, and tear out the eyes of me by the roots; and there, mewed in that featureless skull that is attached to a hacked and mangled torso, there in that cell of the chemic flesh, will still be I, unmutilated, undiminished."
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