spagyric

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/spəˈd͡ʒɪɹɪk/

adjective

Pertaining to alchemy; alchemical, especially regarding medicine.

OriginLate Latin spagyricus ← Ancient Greek σπάω →
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Meanings

adjectivespagyric (not comparable)

alternative spageric · alternative spagiric

  1. not comparablePertaining to alchemy; alchemical, especially regarding medicine.

    As such compromises and syntheses suggest, it was not only hardline Paracelsans who embraced spagyric remedies.

    1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 200
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    The necessary spagyric substances having been obtained, they were shut up in a glass phial and left to incubate in horse dung for forty days.

    1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 135
nounspagyric (plural spagyrics)

plural spagyrics · alternative spageric · alternative spagiric

  1. obsoleteA spagyrist.

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekσπάω“I draw, pull”
  2. Late Latinspagyricus
  3. Englishspagyric

From Late Latin spagyricus, from Ancient Greek σπάω (spáō, “I draw, pull”) + ἀγείρω (ageírō, “I assemble”).

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Translations

Finnish spagyrinen
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French spagyrique
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German spagirisch
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Portuguese espagírico
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Russian спагирический
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Spanish espagírico
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Chicago

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