ALCHEMIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does alchemist mean? 

• ALCHEMIST (noun)
  The noun ALCHEMIST has 1 sense:

1. one who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone

  Familiarity information: ALCHEMIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALCHEMIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("alchemist" is a kind of...):

intellect; intellectual (a person who uses the mind creatively)

Derivation:

alchemistic; alchemistical (of or relating to alchemists)

alchemy (a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times)

 Context examples 

Soldier, statesman, and alchemist—which latter was the highest development of the science-knowledge of his time.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I replied carelessly, and partly in contempt, mentioned the names of my alchemists as the principal authors I had studied.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

With a confusion of ideas only to be accounted for by my extreme youth and my want of a guide on such matters, I had retrod the steps of knowledge along the paths of time and exchanged the discoveries of recent inquirers for the dreams of forgotten alchemists.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)