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archchemic

archchemic adjective: of supreme chemical powers.

Adjective

archchemic (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Of supreme chemical powers.
    • [...] with one vertuous touch
      Th' Arch-chimic Sun ſo farr from us remote
      Produces with Terreſtrial Humor mixt
      Here in the dark ſo many precious things1667, John Milton, “Book LXXXI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC...
    • We do not propose to discuss the nature of light. Newton’s theory that light consisted of infinitesimal particles of matter, afterwards gave place to the theory that light is propagated like sound by infinitesimal waves. The spectroscope upsets all these speculations, and throws new light so to...1870, Massachusetts Ploughman and New England Journal of Agriculture , Volume 30, Issue 12, Open Court Publishing Company, page 2

Examples of archchemic in a sentence

  • When the soul tells and tests by its own archchemic power.a. 1892, Walt Whitman, notes (later published as Preparatory Reading and Thought)
  • Every thing seems "palpable to feeling as to sight." Substances turn to shadows by the painter's archchemic touch; shadows harden into substances.1901, William Hazlitt, Criticisms on Art, and Sketches of the Picture Galleries of England: With Catalogues of the Principal Galleries, Now...

Origin of archchemic

From arch- + chemic.

Questions about archchemic

What does archchemic mean?
Archchemic means of supreme chemical powers.
How do you use archchemic in a sentence?
When the soul tells and tests by its own archchemic power.
What part of speech is archchemic?
Archchemic is an adjective.

Words near archchemic in the dictionary

  1. archchamberlains
  2. archchancellor
  3. archchancellors
  4. archchaplain
  5. archchaplains
  6. archchemic
  7. archchief
  8. archchiefs
  9. archcommander
  10. archcommanders
  11. archcompetitor

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