chemic

alternative chymic · alternative chymick

1. archaicnot comparablePractising chemistry (or, earlier, alchemy); pertaining to these sciences.
2. not comparableobsoleteProduced through alchemy; counterfeit.

   a chymic treasure / Is glittering Youth, which I have spent betimes— / My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

   1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I.217

3. archaicnot comparableChemical.

plural chemics · alternative chymic · alternative chymick

1. archaicA 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 […]

   1633, John Donne, The Comparison

2. obsoleteA solution of chloride of lime, used in bleaching.

present singular third person chemics · participle present chemicking · participle past chemicked · past chemicked · alternative chymic · alternative chymick

1. obsoletetransitiveTo bleach with a solution of chloride of lime.