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alchemically
Variant of alchemy
noun
- an early form of chemistry, with philosophic and magical associations, studied in the Middle Ages: its chief aims were to change base metals into gold and to discover the elixir of perpetual youth
- a power or process of changing one thing into another; esp., a seemingly miraculous power or process of changing a thing into something better
Related Forms:
- alchemic adjective or alchemical
- alchemically adverb
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