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chemistical en · ADJ

Etymology

From chemist + -ical.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Chemical.
   • Paracelsus and his chymistical followers, as so many Promethei, will fetch fire from heaven, will cure all manner of diseases with minerals, accounting them the only physick on the other side. 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection iv:

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