Alchemy



GRE 蓝宝 Barron TOEFL

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n.炼金术
• ［英］ n.炼金术 (medieval form of chemistry concerned with finding a way to turn ordinary metals into gold)
• ［记］ al+chemy ( 化学) ;
• [参] chemistry ( 化学)

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: Middle English alkamie, alquemie, from Middle French or Medieval Latin; Middle French alkimie, from Medieval Latin alchymia, from Arabic al-kīmiyā', from al the + kīmiyā' alchemy, from Late Greek chēmeia
• Date: 14th century
• 1. a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life
• 2. a power or process of transforming something common into something special
• 3. an inexplicable or mysterious transmuting
• • alchemical also alchemic adjective
• • alchemically adverb

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