chymistry

[ kim-uh-stree ]

noun

, Archaic.

1. an archaic variant of chemistry.

Other Words From

• chymic adjective
• chymist noun

Example Sentences

According to the new historians of chymistry, alchemy and chemistry were a single undifferentiated discipline until the publication of the third edition of Nicolas Lémery’s textbook in 1679, when distinctions between them began to be drawn; by the 1720s the two had been effectively separated.

From Literature

The Lexicon technicum of 1704 expressed the rapidly emerging consensus: ALCHYMIST, is one that studies Alchymy; that is, the Sublimer Part of Chymistry which teaches the Transmutation of Metals and the Philosopher’s Stone; according to the Cant of the Adeptists, who amuse the Ignorant and Unthinking with hard Words and Non-sense: For were it not for the Arabick Particle Al, which they will needs have to be of wonderful vertue here, the word would signifie no more than Chymistry.

From Literature

Newton was of little help in this regard: He was obsessed with “chymistry” — synonymous with alchemy, according to the Oxford English Dictionary — and with identifying the philosopher’s stone that would transmute base metals into gold.

From New York Times

“Chymistry”, as practised by Robert Boyle and other natural philosophers, was then evolving from medieval alchemy to modern chemistry.

From Nature

In his academic work, Principe refers to both under the umbrella of an old phrase, “chymistry.”

From Washington Post