chymistry
/ˈkɪ.mə.stɹi/
chymistry noun: early Modern chemistry, as proto-scientific and not fully distinct from alchemy. Also the obsolete form of chemistry.
Noun
chymistry (usually uncountable, plural chymistries)
- 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
Also used as
chymistry is also the obsolete form of chemistry.
Forms of chymistry
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Questions about chymistry
- What does chymistry mean?
- Chymistry means early Modern chemistry, as proto-scientific and not fully distinct from alchemy.
- What part of speech is chymistry?
- Chymistry is a noun.
- How do you pronounce chymistry?
- Chymistry is pronounced /ˈkɪ.mə.stɹi/.
- What is the plural of chymistry?
- The plural of chymistry is chymistries.
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