chemic

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Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
17
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈkɛmɪk/ (UK)

Definition of chemic

6 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (archaic, not-comparable)Practising chemistry (or, earlier, alchemy); pertaining to these sciences.
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adj

  1. (archaic, not-comparable)Practising chemistry (or, earlier, alchemy); pertaining to these sciences.
  2. (not-comparable, obsolete)Produced through alchemy; counterfeit.
    “a chymic treasure / Is glittering Youth, which I have spent betimes— / My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.”
  3. (archaic, not-comparable)Chemical.

noun

  1. (archaic)A chemist or (earlier) an alchemist.
    “like the Chymicks masculine equall fire, / Which in the Lymbecks warme wombe doth inspire / Into th'earths worthlesse part a soule of gold […]”
  2. (obsolete)A solution of chloride of lime, used in bleaching.

verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To bleach with a solution of chloride of lime.

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Etymology

From New Latin chemicus, chimicus, chymicus.

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