English
Etymology
From modern Latin term|spagirista, from term|spagiricus||alchemy (probably invented by w:Paraclesus|Paracelsus).
Noun
en-noun
- alchemy An alchemist, especially one who tried to discover remedies for diseases.
#*2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 1192:
#*:Back when I was still a junior alchemist, passing through What Cheer, Iowa, met up with this old-school spagyrist name of Doddling, who showed me how to get silver to grow just like a tree.
Related terms
spagyric
See also
iatrochemist
ru:spagyrist
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