alchemy
alchemy
[ˈalkɪmi]
noun
alchemic
[alˈkɛmɪk]
adjective
alchemical
adjective
alchemist
noun
alchemize
verb
[ˈalkɪmi]
noun
- [mass noun]the medieval forerunner of chemistry, based on the supposed transformation of matter. It was concerned particularly with attempts to convert base metals into gold or find a universal elixir
（中世纪）炼金术
■(figurative)a process by which paradoxical results are achieved or incompatible elements combined with no obvious rational explanation
(喻)（能使结果自相矛盾或使不相容的因素结合起来的）魔力
his conducting managed by some alchemy to give a sense of fire and ice.
他的指挥由某种魔力操纵，让人感到激情和冷漠的融合。 - Alchemy attracted such medieval scholars as Roger Bacon, St Albertus Magnus, and Paracelsus, who was concerned with the search for a chemical therapy for disease. The rise of mechanical philosophy in the 17th century gradually undermined alchemy and it became an aspect of the occult
alchemic
[alˈkɛmɪk]
adjective
alchemical
adjective
alchemist
noun
alchemize
verb
- (亦作 -ise)
- late Middle English : via Old French and medieval Latin from Arabic al-kīmiyā', from al 'the' + kīmiyā' (from Greek khēmia, khēmeia 'art of transmuting metals')
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