Definition of alchemy in English:

alchemy

noun ˈalkɪmiˈælkəmi

mass noun

1The medieval forerunner of chemistry, concerned with the transmutation of matter, in particular with attempts to convert base metals into gold or find a universal elixir.
（中世纪）炼金术
occult sciences, such as alchemy and astrology
Example sentencesExamples
- Like astrology, knowledge of alchemy filtered into medieval Europe through Moorish centres of learning in Spain.
- Newton devoted long years of research to the ancient mysteries of alchemy and how base metals could be turned into gold.
- Green Magick uses more trees and plants, while Red Magick uses alchemy and astrology for its references.
- His interests extended to an enthusiastic study of mathematics, the natural sciences, and studies of alchemy and natural magic.
- This Kristo's horoscope site had some interesting stuff on it that I want to come back and check out, about dreams, astrology, alchemy, intuition and some other junk.
- Ashmole was fascinated by magic, alchemy and astrology, and befriended many astrologers regardless of political allegiance.
- A true military intellectual, he gave expression to the ideas of the late humanists and was an enthusiastic student of the occult, alchemy, and natural magic.
- The Goddess also figures prominently in alchemy in its concern with primal matter, the primal matrix from which all else may be transmuted.
- In fact, we now know that Newton was in many ways a Renaissance man, working in theology, prophecy, and alchemy, as well as mathematics, optics, and physics.
- Witness their enthusiasm for UFOs as opposed to scientific cosmology, for alchemy instead of chemistry, for urban legends instead of hard news.
- Although it had led to the discovery of alcohol and the mineral acids, historians of chemistry view alchemy in general as fraudulent.
- Now, Gilles was a practitioner of alchemy and attempted to find the infamous philosopher's [philosophers] stone.
- Voodoo, science, witchcraft, animal spirits, chemistry, alchemy, fairies, physics - it's all the same.
- But it no more belongs in a biology class than alchemy belongs in a chemistry class, phlogiston in a physics class or the stork theory in a sex education class.
- A further compilation of ancient texts concerning astrology, magic and alchemy was the Hermetica, written in Alexandria around 100 AD.
- Even doctors got their start in witchcraft - using alchemy, spiritual healing, and healing by deities.
- The symbolism is not accidental: the importance of the sun in astrology clearly parallels the exalted position of gold in alchemy.
- In addition, the authors offer the psychology of miracles, alchemy, ESP, Nazi occultism, Gnosticism and UFOs as instruments of alternative belief in modern times.
- The idea of transmutation through alchemy was one that was taken quite seriously and Dee was granted special rights far beyond someone of his standing.
- Treatises on mathematics, music, astronomy, alchemy, medicine, jurisprudence, as well as studies on Athenian judicial terminology and on the topography of Athens. [5.]
Synonyms
chemistry
magic, sorcery, witchcraft, enchantment
1. 1.1 A seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, or combination.
  finding the person who's right for you requires a very subtle alchemy
  Example sentencesExamples
  Well, we actually have a list of concerns, but for this discussion there is a key aspect of this seemingly wonderful alchemy that needs to be highlighted: derivatives.
  Before dozens of Scottish chairmen phone the ground's switchboard to discover the secret of this apparent alchemy, they should realise Luton will gain nothing from the day except the fee for the rent of their pitch.
  The 43-year-old, mentored by Sir Alex Ferguson, has achieved an unlikely alchemy.
  Though Berridge's approach seems casual, his results are pure alchemy.
  At first, this may seem as magical as the fabled alchemy that could turn any substance to gold.
  I turned the photograph and looked at it, as though it might have changed through some process of mischief or alchemy.
  He uses everything from chemicals to computers to achieve his effects; but his processes really seem a kind of alchemy or magical transformation, awakening swaths of cloth to the play of the body.
  With Eizan, the alchemy of elegance is still alive, and in his best work, properly produced, he can cast a magic glow over the forms of the world and create lightness and grace.
  But it failed to perform the alchemy of transforming the receipt of a dividend from the company into the receipt of a capital sum from someone else.
  By a single act of accounting alchemy, the company transformed its indebtedness into over a billion dollars of golden profit.
  But Carruth manages a rare alchemy by combining an intricate plot and technology that's both specific and vague enough to seem plausible.
  Breaking the water into V-shaped ripples, the dories achieve a visual alchemy seen nowhere else.
  Played out in the corridors of Connaught Place and Kolkata, the story captures the alienation and fragmented reality of urban life through an imaginative alchemy of text and image.
  A small group of people's raw opinions were transformed through the organisation's alchemy into hard public-health science.
  By her personal alchemy, she changed the leaden show into a golden evening of pleasure.
  What intrigues me about the metaphor of alchemy is the importance it places on the process of transformation.
  A transaction designed to achieve that fiscal alchemy is not a trading transaction.
  Everyone who plays has gotten to that point - that's when you understand the alchemy of the game.
  Theatre is a place of alchemy where base metal can often be turned into gold.
  Digestion is alchemy in reverse, with all manner of treasures ultimately being reduced to base material.
  So, through the process of the alchemy of our planet, the black coal is compressed into the multifaceted crystal that shines the colors of black through its [it's] prism.
  Where he had consistently been able to pull off the magical alchemy that produced increased public spending and tax cuts, economic growth and falling interest rates, he now had to admit he had got things wrong.
  In an exceptional feat of perverse alchemy he has, during his 22 years in office, changed gold into lead and ruined a once relatively prosperous southern African state.
  As she explained it, ‘The artistry of the kitchen appealed to me as much as the alchemy.’
  The alchemy of stage and screen can transform books and introduce them to new audiences.
  The whole project depended on the alchemy between Eric and Chris that occurred when Eric's intensity and meticulousness sparked against Chris's charisma and need to be centrestage.
  These resources have shown more resistance to time and, although the alchemy may seem difficult, its results are richer.
  As Shakespeare, in Julius Caesar, reminded us, the evil that men do lives after them, and, try as we might, we cannot always find the alchemy to make the painful consequences of that evil go away.
  Why, then, do I finally feel that the novel fails to cohere, that the novelist's alchemy does not transform all these wonderful ingredients into a golden artifact?
  Thanks to the process of reverse alchemy performed by the previous management, it is now worth less than it would cost to sell.
  Having fun here was a result of alchemy - mixing forced politeness with the mental game of ‘now I got you.’
  Cash, an intensely introspective son of a mill manager, was obsessed with how the alchemy of class, race, and gender combined to forge the southern character.
  It is not easy to identify all the parts of the alchemy, but we definitely have a club ethos, which includes the concept that nobody is bigger than the club.
  What is striking is the creative alchemy that transforms authentic personal experiences into imaginative tales.
  The elements of the alchemy that turned the Kings into a postseason success story have to be in place again if they are to build on their spring fling.
  The very greatest pianists possess, by some alchemy which combines technique with some unknown elements, a personal sound which is easily recognizable.
  But it would be a mistake to dismiss this as an event of no significance involving a couple of maverick Tory MPs. For a strange alchemy has been wrought within the ranks of British conservatism.
  He hewed to his original self-conception with unrepentant ferocity, engaging in a type of human alchemy, changing himself into an imaginary creature who lived in place of the ordinary man.
  She entered the dance field by default, she says, because ‘dance seemed like a good alchemy between movement and creation.’
  Or does it require some sort of creative alchemy - an occurrence as rare as it is mysterious?

Derivatives

alchemic

adjective alˈkɛmɪkælˈkɛmɪk

But he did devote two prime decades to the minor if alchemic art of movie acting.
Example sentencesExamples
- With a fine and deft delicacy, nature and landscape are imbued with a soft surrealism, edging towards an alchemic, almost spiritual symbolism.
- In conjunction with the human voices on the soundtrack, the video installation indexes life as a process in between solidity and liquidity, in exchange and alchemic reaction.
- We should all remember that senior civil servants and their political masters work together by some alchemic and creative tension to govern not just a company, but the country.
- It is interesting that two centuries ago, when science was evolving past the alchemic level, scientists thought that it wouldn't be long before all the mysteries of the universe would be uncovered.

alchemical

adjective alˈkɛmɪk(ə)l

Converting waste into value is indeed alchemical thinking; [,] to the fetishism of commodities one can add the fetishism of waste.
Example sentencesExamples
- I love that I can do these intense things to people's bodies, and somehow, through some alchemical transformation, it's not a bad thing.
- However, the real goal of alchemical work is not to obtain material gold, but spiritual gold: a state of enormous power, clarity, and purity.
- For instance, Charles II of England attempted transmutations and even Sir Isaac Newton spent considerable time decoding alchemical books.
- Kessler's play is less alchemical than Polke's, but the impulse to incorporate the elements into a painting is the same.

alchemize

verb ˈalkəmʌɪzˈælkəˌmaɪz

[with object]

Transform the nature or properties of (something) by a seemingly magical process.
she selected ingredients to be alchemized into a majestic feast
Example sentencesExamples
- a storyteller who can alchemize a skit about biscuits into comedy gold
- Certainly the most English playwright, if by that we mean the dramatist who observes the manners and rancor of the quiet middle class and alchemizes them into delicious and troubling comedy.
- A world, of the 30s and the 80s, alchemized in a few words.
- The act of writing down a personal thought alchemizes it into reality.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French and medieval Latin from Arabic al-kīmiyā', from al 'the' + kīmiyā' (from Greek khēmia, khēmeia 'art of transmuting metals').

chemist from Late Middle English:
The word alchemy (Late Middle English) was a medieval science that looked to transform matter, in particular to convert base metals into gold or find a universal ‘elixir of life’. It was the medieval equivalent of chemistry, and was also the origin of the word. Alchemy came via Old French and medieval Latin from Arabic al-kīmiyā, which was from Greek khēmia ‘the art of transforming metals’. See also elixir

Definition of alchemy in US English:

alchemy

nounˈalkəmēˈælkəmi

1The medieval forerunner of chemistry, based on the supposed transformation of matter. It was concerned particularly with attempts to convert base metals into gold or to find a universal elixir.
（中世纪）炼金术
Example sentencesExamples
- A further compilation of ancient texts concerning astrology, magic and alchemy was the Hermetica, written in Alexandria around 100 AD.
- Voodoo, science, witchcraft, animal spirits, chemistry, alchemy, fairies, physics - it's all the same.
- The symbolism is not accidental: the importance of the sun in astrology clearly parallels the exalted position of gold in alchemy.
- In addition, the authors offer the psychology of miracles, alchemy, ESP, Nazi occultism, Gnosticism and UFOs as instruments of alternative belief in modern times.
- A true military intellectual, he gave expression to the ideas of the late humanists and was an enthusiastic student of the occult, alchemy, and natural magic.
- His interests extended to an enthusiastic study of mathematics, the natural sciences, and studies of alchemy and natural magic.
- Even doctors got their start in witchcraft - using alchemy, spiritual healing, and healing by deities.
- The Goddess also figures prominently in alchemy in its concern with primal matter, the primal matrix from which all else may be transmuted.
- This Kristo's horoscope site had some interesting stuff on it that I want to come back and check out, about dreams, astrology, alchemy, intuition and some other junk.
- But it no more belongs in a biology class than alchemy belongs in a chemistry class, phlogiston in a physics class or the stork theory in a sex education class.
- In fact, we now know that Newton was in many ways a Renaissance man, working in theology, prophecy, and alchemy, as well as mathematics, optics, and physics.
- Witness their enthusiasm for UFOs as opposed to scientific cosmology, for alchemy instead of chemistry, for urban legends instead of hard news.
- The idea of transmutation through alchemy was one that was taken quite seriously and Dee was granted special rights far beyond someone of his standing.
- Newton devoted long years of research to the ancient mysteries of alchemy and how base metals could be turned into gold.
- Ashmole was fascinated by magic, alchemy and astrology, and befriended many astrologers regardless of political allegiance.
- Like astrology, knowledge of alchemy filtered into medieval Europe through Moorish centres of learning in Spain.
- Although it had led to the discovery of alcohol and the mineral acids, historians of chemistry view alchemy in general as fraudulent.
- Now, Gilles was a practitioner of alchemy and attempted to find the infamous philosopher's [philosophers] stone.
- Treatises on mathematics, music, astronomy, alchemy, medicine, jurisprudence, as well as studies on Athenian judicial terminology and on the topography of Athens. [5.]
- Green Magick uses more trees and plants, while Red Magick uses alchemy and astrology for its references.
Synonyms
chemistry
1. 1.1 A seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, or combination.
  finding the person who's right for you requires a very subtle alchemy
  Example sentencesExamples
  Well, we actually have a list of concerns, but for this discussion there is a key aspect of this seemingly wonderful alchemy that needs to be highlighted: derivatives.
  A small group of people's raw opinions were transformed through the organisation's alchemy into hard public-health science.
  Everyone who plays has gotten to that point - that's when you understand the alchemy of the game.
  The whole project depended on the alchemy between Eric and Chris that occurred when Eric's intensity and meticulousness sparked against Chris's charisma and need to be centrestage.
  She entered the dance field by default, she says, because ‘dance seemed like a good alchemy between movement and creation.’
  The very greatest pianists possess, by some alchemy which combines technique with some unknown elements, a personal sound which is easily recognizable.
  Thanks to the process of reverse alchemy performed by the previous management, it is now worth less than it would cost to sell.
  What is striking is the creative alchemy that transforms authentic personal experiences into imaginative tales.
  I turned the photograph and looked at it, as though it might have changed through some process of mischief or alchemy.
  These resources have shown more resistance to time and, although the alchemy may seem difficult, its results are richer.
  The 43-year-old, mentored by Sir Alex Ferguson, has achieved an unlikely alchemy.
  But Carruth manages a rare alchemy by combining an intricate plot and technology that's both specific and vague enough to seem plausible.
  As she explained it, ‘The artistry of the kitchen appealed to me as much as the alchemy.’
  Played out in the corridors of Connaught Place and Kolkata, the story captures the alienation and fragmented reality of urban life through an imaginative alchemy of text and image.
  By her personal alchemy, she changed the leaden show into a golden evening of pleasure.
  Where he had consistently been able to pull off the magical alchemy that produced increased public spending and tax cuts, economic growth and falling interest rates, he now had to admit he had got things wrong.
  He hewed to his original self-conception with unrepentant ferocity, engaging in a type of human alchemy, changing himself into an imaginary creature who lived in place of the ordinary man.
  By a single act of accounting alchemy, the company transformed its indebtedness into over a billion dollars of golden profit.
  The alchemy of stage and screen can transform books and introduce them to new audiences.
  But it failed to perform the alchemy of transforming the receipt of a dividend from the company into the receipt of a capital sum from someone else.
  Having fun here was a result of alchemy - mixing forced politeness with the mental game of ‘now I got you.’
  In an exceptional feat of perverse alchemy he has, during his 22 years in office, changed gold into lead and ruined a once relatively prosperous southern African state.
  Digestion is alchemy in reverse, with all manner of treasures ultimately being reduced to base material.
  What intrigues me about the metaphor of alchemy is the importance it places on the process of transformation.
  Theatre is a place of alchemy where base metal can often be turned into gold.
  A transaction designed to achieve that fiscal alchemy is not a trading transaction.
  Before dozens of Scottish chairmen phone the ground's switchboard to discover the secret of this apparent alchemy, they should realise Luton will gain nothing from the day except the fee for the rent of their pitch.
  Why, then, do I finally feel that the novel fails to cohere, that the novelist's alchemy does not transform all these wonderful ingredients into a golden artifact?
  So, through the process of the alchemy of our planet, the black coal is compressed into the multifaceted crystal that shines the colors of black through its [it's] prism.
  Though Berridge's approach seems casual, his results are pure alchemy.
  But it would be a mistake to dismiss this as an event of no significance involving a couple of maverick Tory MPs. For a strange alchemy has been wrought within the ranks of British conservatism.
  It is not easy to identify all the parts of the alchemy, but we definitely have a club ethos, which includes the concept that nobody is bigger than the club.
  Breaking the water into V-shaped ripples, the dories achieve a visual alchemy seen nowhere else.
  With Eizan, the alchemy of elegance is still alive, and in his best work, properly produced, he can cast a magic glow over the forms of the world and create lightness and grace.
  Or does it require some sort of creative alchemy - an occurrence as rare as it is mysterious?
  As Shakespeare, in Julius Caesar, reminded us, the evil that men do lives after them, and, try as we might, we cannot always find the alchemy to make the painful consequences of that evil go away.
  Cash, an intensely introspective son of a mill manager, was obsessed with how the alchemy of class, race, and gender combined to forge the southern character.
  He uses everything from chemicals to computers to achieve his effects; but his processes really seem a kind of alchemy or magical transformation, awakening swaths of cloth to the play of the body.
  At first, this may seem as magical as the fabled alchemy that could turn any substance to gold.
  The elements of the alchemy that turned the Kings into a postseason success story have to be in place again if they are to build on their spring fling.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French and medieval Latin from Arabic al-kīmiyā', from al ‘the’ + kīmiyā' (from Greek khēmia, khēmeia ‘art of transmuting metals’).

词汇	alchemy
释义	Definition of alchemy in English: alchemy noun ˈalkɪmiˈælkəmi mass noun 1The medieval forerunner of chemistry, concerned with the transmutation of matter, in particular with attempts to convert base metals into gold or find a universal elixir. （中世纪）炼金术 occult sciences, such as alchemy and astrology Example sentencesExamples Like astrology, knowledge of alchemy filtered into medieval Europe through Moorish centres of learning in Spain. Newton devoted long years of research to the ancient mysteries of alchemy and how base metals could be turned into gold. Green Magick uses more trees and plants, while Red Magick uses alchemy and astrology for its references. His interests extended to an enthusiastic study of mathematics, the natural sciences, and studies of alchemy and natural magic. This Kristo's horoscope site had some interesting stuff on it that I want to come back and check out, about dreams, astrology, alchemy, intuition and some other junk. Ashmole was fascinated by magic, alchemy and astrology, and befriended many astrologers regardless of political allegiance. A true military intellectual, he gave expression to the ideas of the late humanists and was an enthusiastic student of the occult, alchemy, and natural magic. The Goddess also figures prominently in alchemy in its concern with primal matter, the primal matrix from which all else may be transmuted. In fact, we now know that Newton was in many ways a Renaissance man, working in theology, prophecy, and alchemy, as well as mathematics, optics, and physics. Witness their enthusiasm for UFOs as opposed to scientific cosmology, for alchemy instead of chemistry, for urban legends instead of hard news. Although it had led to the discovery of alcohol and the mineral acids, historians of chemistry view alchemy in general as fraudulent. Now, Gilles was a practitioner of alchemy and attempted to find the infamous philosopher's [philosophers] stone. Voodoo, science, witchcraft, animal spirits, chemistry, alchemy, fairies, physics - it's all the same. But it no more belongs in a biology class than alchemy belongs in a chemistry class, phlogiston in a physics class or the stork theory in a sex education class. A further compilation of ancient texts concerning astrology, magic and alchemy was the Hermetica, written in Alexandria around 100 AD. Even doctors got their start in witchcraft - using alchemy, spiritual healing, and healing by deities. The symbolism is not accidental: the importance of the sun in astrology clearly parallels the exalted position of gold in alchemy. In addition, the authors offer the psychology of miracles, alchemy, ESP, Nazi occultism, Gnosticism and UFOs as instruments of alternative belief in modern times. The idea of transmutation through alchemy was one that was taken quite seriously and Dee was granted special rights far beyond someone of his standing. Treatises on mathematics, music, astronomy, alchemy, medicine, jurisprudence, as well as studies on Athenian judicial terminology and on the topography of Athens. [5.] Synonyms chemistry magic, sorcery, witchcraft, enchantment 1.1 A seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, or combination. finding the person who's right for you requires a very subtle alchemy Example sentencesExamples Well, we actually have a list of concerns, but for this discussion there is a key aspect of this seemingly wonderful alchemy that needs to be highlighted: derivatives. Before dozens of Scottish chairmen phone the ground's switchboard to discover the secret of this apparent alchemy, they should realise Luton will gain nothing from the day except the fee for the rent of their pitch. The 43-year-old, mentored by Sir Alex Ferguson, has achieved an unlikely alchemy. Though Berridge's approach seems casual, his results are pure alchemy. At first, this may seem as magical as the fabled alchemy that could turn any substance to gold. I turned the photograph and looked at it, as though it might have changed through some process of mischief or alchemy. He uses everything from chemicals to computers to achieve his effects; but his processes really seem a kind of alchemy or magical transformation, awakening swaths of cloth to the play of the body. With Eizan, the alchemy of elegance is still alive, and in his best work, properly produced, he can cast a magic glow over the forms of the world and create lightness and grace. But it failed to perform the alchemy of transforming the receipt of a dividend from the company into the receipt of a capital sum from someone else. By a single act of accounting alchemy, the company transformed its indebtedness into over a billion dollars of golden profit. But Carruth manages a rare alchemy by combining an intricate plot and technology that's both specific and vague enough to seem plausible. Breaking the water into V-shaped ripples, the dories achieve a visual alchemy seen nowhere else. Played out in the corridors of Connaught Place and Kolkata, the story captures the alienation and fragmented reality of urban life through an imaginative alchemy of text and image. A small group of people's raw opinions were transformed through the organisation's alchemy into hard public-health science. By her personal alchemy, she changed the leaden show into a golden evening of pleasure. What intrigues me about the metaphor of alchemy is the importance it places on the process of transformation. A transaction designed to achieve that fiscal alchemy is not a trading transaction. Everyone who plays has gotten to that point - that's when you understand the alchemy of the game. Theatre is a place of alchemy where base metal can often be turned into gold. Digestion is alchemy in reverse, with all manner of treasures ultimately being reduced to base material. So, through the process of the alchemy of our planet, the black coal is compressed into the multifaceted crystal that shines the colors of black through its [it's] prism. Where he had consistently been able to pull off the magical alchemy that produced increased public spending and tax cuts, economic growth and falling interest rates, he now had to admit he had got things wrong. In an exceptional feat of perverse alchemy he has, during his 22 years in office, changed gold into lead and ruined a once relatively prosperous southern African state. As she explained it, ‘The artistry of the kitchen appealed to me as much as the alchemy.’ The alchemy of stage and screen can transform books and introduce them to new audiences. The whole project depended on the alchemy between Eric and Chris that occurred when Eric's intensity and meticulousness sparked against Chris's charisma and need to be centrestage. These resources have shown more resistance to time and, although the alchemy may seem difficult, its results are richer. As Shakespeare, in Julius Caesar, reminded us, the evil that men do lives after them, and, try as we might, we cannot always find the alchemy to make the painful consequences of that evil go away. Why, then, do I finally feel that the novel fails to cohere, that the novelist's alchemy does not transform all these wonderful ingredients into a golden artifact? Thanks to the process of reverse alchemy performed by the previous management, it is now worth less than it would cost to sell. Having fun here was a result of alchemy - mixing forced politeness with the mental game of ‘now I got you.’ Cash, an intensely introspective son of a mill manager, was obsessed with how the alchemy of class, race, and gender combined to forge the southern character. It is not easy to identify all the parts of the alchemy, but we definitely have a club ethos, which includes the concept that nobody is bigger than the club. What is striking is the creative alchemy that transforms authentic personal experiences into imaginative tales. The elements of the alchemy that turned the Kings into a postseason success story have to be in place again if they are to build on their spring fling. The very greatest pianists possess, by some alchemy which combines technique with some unknown elements, a personal sound which is easily recognizable. But it would be a mistake to dismiss this as an event of no significance involving a couple of maverick Tory MPs. For a strange alchemy has been wrought within the ranks of British conservatism. He hewed to his original self-conception with unrepentant ferocity, engaging in a type of human alchemy, changing himself into an imaginary creature who lived in place of the ordinary man. She entered the dance field by default, she says, because ‘dance seemed like a good alchemy between movement and creation.’ Or does it require some sort of creative alchemy - an occurrence as rare as it is mysterious? Derivatives alchemic adjective alˈkɛmɪkælˈkɛmɪk But he did devote two prime decades to the minor if alchemic art of movie acting. Example sentencesExamples With a fine and deft delicacy, nature and landscape are imbued with a soft surrealism, edging towards an alchemic, almost spiritual symbolism. In conjunction with the human voices on the soundtrack, the video installation indexes life as a process in between solidity and liquidity, in exchange and alchemic reaction. We should all remember that senior civil servants and their political masters work together by some alchemic and creative tension to govern not just a company, but the country. It is interesting that two centuries ago, when science was evolving past the alchemic level, scientists thought that it wouldn't be long before all the mysteries of the universe would be uncovered. alchemical adjective alˈkɛmɪk(ə)l Converting waste into value is indeed alchemical thinking; [,] to the fetishism of commodities one can add the fetishism of waste. Example sentencesExamples I love that I can do these intense things to people's bodies, and somehow, through some alchemical transformation, it's not a bad thing. However, the real goal of alchemical work is not to obtain material gold, but spiritual gold: a state of enormous power, clarity, and purity. For instance, Charles II of England attempted transmutations and even Sir Isaac Newton spent considerable time decoding alchemical books. Kessler's play is less alchemical than Polke's, but the impulse to incorporate the elements into a painting is the same. alchemize verb ˈalkəmʌɪzˈælkəˌmaɪz [with object] Transform the nature or properties of (something) by a seemingly magical process. she selected ingredients to be alchemized into a majestic feast Example sentencesExamples a storyteller who can alchemize a skit about biscuits into comedy gold Certainly the most English playwright, if by that we mean the dramatist who observes the manners and rancor of the quiet middle class and alchemizes them into delicious and troubling comedy. A world, of the 30s and the 80s, alchemized in a few words. The act of writing down a personal thought alchemizes it into reality. Origin Late Middle English: via Old French and medieval Latin from Arabic al-kīmiyā', from al 'the' + kīmiyā' (from Greek khēmia, khēmeia 'art of transmuting metals'). chemist from Late Middle English: The word alchemy (Late Middle English) was a medieval science that looked to transform matter, in particular to convert base metals into gold or find a universal ‘elixir of life’. It was the medieval equivalent of chemistry, and was also the origin of the word. Alchemy came via Old French and medieval Latin from Arabic al-kīmiyā, which was from Greek khēmia ‘the art of transforming metals’. See also elixir Definition of alchemy in US English: alchemy nounˈalkəmēˈælkəmi 1The medieval forerunner of chemistry, based on the supposed transformation of matter. It was concerned particularly with attempts to convert base metals into gold or to find a universal elixir. （中世纪）炼金术 Example sentencesExamples A further compilation of ancient texts concerning astrology, magic and alchemy was the Hermetica, written in Alexandria around 100 AD. Voodoo, science, witchcraft, animal spirits, chemistry, alchemy, fairies, physics - it's all the same. The symbolism is not accidental: the importance of the sun in astrology clearly parallels the exalted position of gold in alchemy. In addition, the authors offer the psychology of miracles, alchemy, ESP, Nazi occultism, Gnosticism and UFOs as instruments of alternative belief in modern times. A true military intellectual, he gave expression to the ideas of the late humanists and was an enthusiastic student of the occult, alchemy, and natural magic. His interests extended to an enthusiastic study of mathematics, the natural sciences, and studies of alchemy and natural magic. Even doctors got their start in witchcraft - using alchemy, spiritual healing, and healing by deities. The Goddess also figures prominently in alchemy in its concern with primal matter, the primal matrix from which all else may be transmuted. This Kristo's horoscope site had some interesting stuff on it that I want to come back and check out, about dreams, astrology, alchemy, intuition and some other junk. But it no more belongs in a biology class than alchemy belongs in a chemistry class, phlogiston in a physics class or the stork theory in a sex education class. In fact, we now know that Newton was in many ways a Renaissance man, working in theology, prophecy, and alchemy, as well as mathematics, optics, and physics. Witness their enthusiasm for UFOs as opposed to scientific cosmology, for alchemy instead of chemistry, for urban legends instead of hard news. The idea of transmutation through alchemy was one that was taken quite seriously and Dee was granted special rights far beyond someone of his standing. Newton devoted long years of research to the ancient mysteries of alchemy and how base metals could be turned into gold. Ashmole was fascinated by magic, alchemy and astrology, and befriended many astrologers regardless of political allegiance. Like astrology, knowledge of alchemy filtered into medieval Europe through Moorish centres of learning in Spain. Although it had led to the discovery of alcohol and the mineral acids, historians of chemistry view alchemy in general as fraudulent. Now, Gilles was a practitioner of alchemy and attempted to find the infamous philosopher's [philosophers] stone. Treatises on mathematics, music, astronomy, alchemy, medicine, jurisprudence, as well as studies on Athenian judicial terminology and on the topography of Athens. [5.] Green Magick uses more trees and plants, while Red Magick uses alchemy and astrology for its references. Synonyms chemistry 1.1 A seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, or combination. finding the person who's right for you requires a very subtle alchemy Example sentencesExamples Well, we actually have a list of concerns, but for this discussion there is a key aspect of this seemingly wonderful alchemy that needs to be highlighted: derivatives. A small group of people's raw opinions were transformed through the organisation's alchemy into hard public-health science. Everyone who plays has gotten to that point - that's when you understand the alchemy of the game. The whole project depended on the alchemy between Eric and Chris that occurred when Eric's intensity and meticulousness sparked against Chris's charisma and need to be centrestage. She entered the dance field by default, she says, because ‘dance seemed like a good alchemy between movement and creation.’ The very greatest pianists possess, by some alchemy which combines technique with some unknown elements, a personal sound which is easily recognizable. Thanks to the process of reverse alchemy performed by the previous management, it is now worth less than it would cost to sell. What is striking is the creative alchemy that transforms authentic personal experiences into imaginative tales. I turned the photograph and looked at it, as though it might have changed through some process of mischief or alchemy. These resources have shown more resistance to time and, although the alchemy may seem difficult, its results are richer. The 43-year-old, mentored by Sir Alex Ferguson, has achieved an unlikely alchemy. But Carruth manages a rare alchemy by combining an intricate plot and technology that's both specific and vague enough to seem plausible. As she explained it, ‘The artistry of the kitchen appealed to me as much as the alchemy.’ Played out in the corridors of Connaught Place and Kolkata, the story captures the alienation and fragmented reality of urban life through an imaginative alchemy of text and image. By her personal alchemy, she changed the leaden show into a golden evening of pleasure. Where he had consistently been able to pull off the magical alchemy that produced increased public spending and tax cuts, economic growth and falling interest rates, he now had to admit he had got things wrong. He hewed to his original self-conception with unrepentant ferocity, engaging in a type of human alchemy, changing himself into an imaginary creature who lived in place of the ordinary man. By a single act of accounting alchemy, the company transformed its indebtedness into over a billion dollars of golden profit. The alchemy of stage and screen can transform books and introduce them to new audiences. But it failed to perform the alchemy of transforming the receipt of a dividend from the company into the receipt of a capital sum from someone else. Having fun here was a result of alchemy - mixing forced politeness with the mental game of ‘now I got you.’ In an exceptional feat of perverse alchemy he has, during his 22 years in office, changed gold into lead and ruined a once relatively prosperous southern African state. Digestion is alchemy in reverse, with all manner of treasures ultimately being reduced to base material. What intrigues me about the metaphor of alchemy is the importance it places on the process of transformation. Theatre is a place of alchemy where base metal can often be turned into gold. A transaction designed to achieve that fiscal alchemy is not a trading transaction. Before dozens of Scottish chairmen phone the ground's switchboard to discover the secret of this apparent alchemy, they should realise Luton will gain nothing from the day except the fee for the rent of their pitch. Why, then, do I finally feel that the novel fails to cohere, that the novelist's alchemy does not transform all these wonderful ingredients into a golden artifact? So, through the process of the alchemy of our planet, the black coal is compressed into the multifaceted crystal that shines the colors of black through its [it's] prism. Though Berridge's approach seems casual, his results are pure alchemy. But it would be a mistake to dismiss this as an event of no significance involving a couple of maverick Tory MPs. For a strange alchemy has been wrought within the ranks of British conservatism. It is not easy to identify all the parts of the alchemy, but we definitely have a club ethos, which includes the concept that nobody is bigger than the club. Breaking the water into V-shaped ripples, the dories achieve a visual alchemy seen nowhere else. With Eizan, the alchemy of elegance is still alive, and in his best work, properly produced, he can cast a magic glow over the forms of the world and create lightness and grace. Or does it require some sort of creative alchemy - an occurrence as rare as it is mysterious? As Shakespeare, in Julius Caesar, reminded us, the evil that men do lives after them, and, try as we might, we cannot always find the alchemy to make the painful consequences of that evil go away. Cash, an intensely introspective son of a mill manager, was obsessed with how the alchemy of class, race, and gender combined to forge the southern character. He uses everything from chemicals to computers to achieve his effects; but his processes really seem a kind of alchemy or magical transformation, awakening swaths of cloth to the play of the body. At first, this may seem as magical as the fabled alchemy that could turn any substance to gold. The elements of the alchemy that turned the Kings into a postseason success story have to be in place again if they are to build on their spring fling. Origin Late Middle English: via Old French and medieval Latin from Arabic al-kīmiyā', from al ‘the’ + kīmiyā' (from Greek khēmia, khēmeia ‘art of transmuting metals’).
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