Definition of "alchymist" []

• Alternative spelling of alchemist. (noun)

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• "But in narrating the career of such men, it will be found that many of them united several or all of the functions just mentioned; that the alchymist was a fortune-teller, or a necromancer -- that he pretended to cure all maladies by touch or charm, and to work miracles of every kind."
• "Of all dreams, that of the alchymist is the most poetical, for he looked at the finest symbol."
• "Is a kind of alchymist or persecutor of nature, that would change the dull lead of his brain into finer metal, with success many times as unprosperous, or at least not quitting the cost, to wit, of his own oil and candles."