spagyric
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Late Latin spagyricus, from Ancient Greek σπάω (spáō, “I draw, pull”) + ἀγείρω (ageírō, “I assemble”).
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spagyric (not comparable)
- Pertaining to alchemy; alchemical, especially regarding medicine.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 200:
- As such compromises and syntheses suggest, it was not only hardline Paracelsans who embraced spagyric remedies.
- 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 135:
- 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.
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spagyric (plural spagyrics)