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spagyric

/spəˈd͡ʒɪɹɪk/

spagyric adjective: pertaining to alchemy; alchemical, especially regarding medicine.

Adjective

spagyric (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to alchemy; alchemical, especially regarding medicine.
    • As such compromises and syntheses suggest, it was not only hardline Paracelsans who embraced spagyric remedies.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 200
    • The necessary spagyric substances having been obtained, they were shut up in a glass phial and left to incubate in horse dung for forty days.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 135

Noun

spagyric (plural spagyrics)

  1. (obsolete) A spagyrist.

Forms of spagyric

Adjective
alternative formspageric
alternative formspagiric
Noun
pluralspagyrics

Origin of spagyric

From Late Latin spagyricus, from Ancient Greek σπάω (spáō, “I draw, pull”) + ἀγείρω (ageírō, “I assemble”).

Questions about spagyric

What does spagyric mean?
Spagyric means pertaining to alchemy; alchemical, especially regarding medicine.
What part of speech is spagyric?
Spagyric can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce spagyric?
Spagyric is pronounced /spəˈd͡ʒɪɹɪk/.

Words near spagyric in the dictionary

  1. Spagnolos
  2. Spagnuolo
  3. Spagnuolos
  4. spagoer
  5. spagoers
  6. spagyric
  7. spagyrical
  8. spagyrically
  9. spagyrics
  10. spagyrist
  11. spagyrists

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