Definition of "chemic" [chem•ic]

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

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• "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."