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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'alchemy' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions alchemy noun (alchemies) (obsolete) Chemistry and in particular pharmaceutical chemistry (as practised in the Middle Ages); searching for a panacea. The speculative medieval philosophical art of changing objects from one element into another, principally (historically) attempting to turn lead and other base metals into gold; pseudo-science. The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation. (context, computing, slang) Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm. Translations:  French: alchimie(fr)f (trans-mid) (trans-bottom) (checktrans-top) German: Alchemie(de)f Etymology: From (term, alkemie, lang=fro), (term, arquemie, lang=fro) (French (term, alchimie, lang=fr)) < (term, alkimia, lang=la) < (Arab.) (term, sc=ARchar, ÙÙÙÙ, ÙÙÙÙÙ, tr=al-kÄmiyÄ", lang=ar) < Ancient Greek (term, sc=polytonic, , lang=grc) or (term, sc=polytonic, , tr=chÄmeia or chymeia, lang=grc) originally "a mingling, infusion, juice, liquid, especially as extracted from plants" and later "alchemy" < perhaps both (term, sc=polytonic, , tr=ChÄmia, , black earth (ancient name for Egypt), lang=grc) and (term, sc=polytonic, , lang=grc, tr=chymos, , juice, sap). (Compare Spanish (term, alquimia, lang=es) and Italian (term, alchimia, lang=it)).        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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