spagirist
spagirist is the alternative form of spagyrist.
Meaning of spagyrist
Noun
spagyrist (plural spagyrists)
- An alchemist, especially one who tried to discover remedies for diseases.
- It has, of late more particularly, assumed not only an unforbidding, but even an engaging form, by the facility with which many of its most important researches are now conducted, and by the extension of them to numerous objects which had not before been attended to by the old spagyrists.1780, Francis de Wasserberg, “Chemical Institutions for the Use of Students”, in The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, volume 63, page 502
Forms of spagirist
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Questions about spagirist
- What is spagirist the alternative form of?
- Spagirist is the alternative form of spagyrist.
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