chymic

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English

Adjective

chymic (comparative more chymic, superlative most chymic)

  1. (obsolete) chemic
    • 1914, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 11, 1914‎:
      Till lastly, when by chymic jolt / And sheer corrosion of the thatch, / What time the withering woodlands moult / My love shall moult to match, / And all those curls I loved to beg / For keepsakes on the earth be strewed, / Leaving her cranium like an egg / Incomparably nude.
    • 1738, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett‎:
      Less shone the tresses Egypt's princess wore, / Which sweet Callimachus so sung before; / Here courtly trifles set the world at odds, / Belles war with beaux, and whims descend for gods, / The new machines in names of ridicule, / Mock the grave frenzy of the chymic fool.
    • 1681, Andrew Marvell, edited by G. A. Aitken, Ed. London: Lawrence & Bullen, The Poems of Andrew Marvell, pages 36–38:
      So the all-seeing sun each day Distills the world with chymic ray.

Noun

chymic (plural chymics)

  1. (obsolete) chemic
    • 1633, George Herbert, Vanity:
      The subtle chymic can divest / And strip the creature naked, till he find / The callow principles within their nest
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