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chymic

chymic adjective: chemic.

Adjective

chymic (comparative more chymic, superlative most chymic)

  1. (obsolete) chemic
    • Till lastly, when by chymic jolt / And sheer corrosion of the thatch, / What time the withering woodlands moult / My love shall moult to match, / And all those curls I loved to beg / For keepsakes on the earth be strewed, / Leaving her cranium like an egg / Incomparably nude.1914, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 11, 1914
    • Less shone the tresses Egypt's princess wore, / Which sweet Callimachus so sung before; / Here courtly trifles set the world at odds, / Belles war with beaux, and whims descend for gods, / The new machines in names of ridicule, / Mock the grave frenzy of the chymic fool.1738, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett

Noun

chymic (plural chymics)

  1. (obsolete) chemic
    • The subtle chymic can divest / And strip the creature naked, till he find / The callow principles within their nest1633, George Herbert, Vanity

Forms of chymic

Adjective
comparativemore chymic
superlativemost chymic
Noun
pluralchymics

Questions about chymic

What does chymic mean?
Chymic means chemic.
What part of speech is chymic?
Chymic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near chymic in the dictionary

  1. chylus
  2. chymase
  3. chymases
  4. chyme
  5. chymes
  6. chymic
  7. chymical
  8. chymically
  9. chymicals
  10. chymics
  11. chymiferous

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