How To Use alchemistic In A Sentence
- Sendivogius offered to effect Sethon's escape in return for assistance in his alchemistic pursuits, to which arrangement the Scottish alchemist willingly agreed. Bygone Beliefs
- While it heated up, I went back to the bar and tried to reenact my alchemistic trick in a wine glass. GOLD • by Michael McDonnell
- In this, however, he was disappointed; she knew nothing of the matter, but she had the manuscript of an alchemistic work written by her late husband. Bygone Beliefs
- This extravagance is also very pronounced in the alchemistic works attributed to him; for example, the belief in the artificial creation of minute living creatures resembling men (called "homunculi") -- a belief of the utmost absurdity, if we are to understand it literally. Alchemy: Ancient and Modern
- As the first sort of legislators attended to the different kinds of citizens, and combined them into one commonwealth, the others, the metaphysical and alchemistical legislators, have taken the direct contrary course. Paras. 300-324
- As the first sort of legislators attended to the different kinds of citizens, and combined them into one commonwealth, the others, the metaphysical and alchemistical legislators, have taken the directly contrary course. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
- I'm sort of put off by people who make their livings--and I'm beginning to sound like my ancient mentor of the moment, Charles Ives--off of fiction and then claim to be reality philosophers and therefore the only observers able to fairly understand why multitudes of world folk follow the foolish and deadly biases and fears, off-the-wall platitudes, and alchemistic sciences of ancient imagination, an uneducated imagination. Books Again
- Boehme acquired a vocabulary of alchemistical terms which he was always labouring to turn to spiritual meaning, but which always baffled him. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
- PARACELSUS 'views were based upon his theory (undoubtedly true in a sense) that man is a microcosm, a world in miniature. 24 Now, all things material, taught PARACELSUS, contain the three principles termed in alchemistic phraseology salt, sulphur, and mercury. Bygone Beliefs
- It appears more probable, however, either that Lully the alchemist was a personage distinct from the Lully whose life we have sketched above, or that the alchemistic writings attributed to him are forgeries of a similar nature to the works of pseudo-Geber (§ 32). Alchemy: Ancient and Modern
