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chymistries

chymistries is the plural of chymistry.

Meaning of chymistry

Noun

chymistry (usually uncountable, plural chymistries)

  1. (historical, usually) Early Modern chemistry, as proto-scientific and not fully distinct from alchemy.
    • But the sixteenth century was a time of particular interest in chymistry. The idea of chymistry meant many things to many people of the period, and it is very dangerous to generalize. Chymistry was both theory and practice, involving both an account of at least a part of the natural world and an...2006, Daniel Garber, “Physics and Foundations”, in Katharine Park, editor, Early Modern Science (Cambridge History of Science), volume 3, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 29

Questions about chymistries

What is chymistries the plural of?
Chymistries is the plural of chymistry.

Words near chymistries in the dictionary

  1. chymified
  2. chymifies
  3. chymify
  4. chymifying
  5. chymist
  6. chymistries
  7. chymistry
  8. chymists
  9. chymokine
  10. chymopapain
  11. chymopapains

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