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spagyrists

spagyrists is the plural of spagyrist.

Meaning of spagyrist

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

Questions about spagyrists

What is spagyrists the plural of?
Spagyrists is the plural of spagyrist.

Words near spagyrists in the dictionary

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

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