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spagyrist

spagyrist noun: an alchemist, especially one who tried to discover remedies for diseases.

Noun

spagyrist (plural spagyrists)

  1. 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
    • The Carmelite enjoyed the general amazement, and he told father and son how the secret of this substance had been revealed to him by an Arab; it was medicine far more powerful than the one Christian spagyrists called unguentum armarium.1994, Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before, Harcourt Brace, published 1995, page 21

Forms of spagyrist

pluralspagyrists

Origin of spagyrist

From modern Latin spagirista, from spagiricus (“alchemy”) (probably invented by Paracelsus).

Questions about spagyrist

What does spagyrist mean?
Spagyrist means an alchemist, especially one who tried to discover remedies for diseases.
What part of speech is spagyrist?
Spagyrist is a noun.
What is the plural of spagyrist?
The plural of spagyrist is spagyrists.

Words near spagyrist in the dictionary

  1. spagoers
  2. spagyric
  3. spagyrical
  4. spagyrically
  5. spagyrics
  6. spagyrist
  7. spagyrists
  8. spahbed
  9. spahbeds
  10. spahee
  11. spahees

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