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nounone who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stonetype of:
Definition that contains alchemist
- elixir hypothetical substance that the alchemists believed to be capable of changing base metals into gold
- faust an alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge
- cagliostro Italian who was famous as a magician and alchemist (1743-1795)
- panacea hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists
- nostrum hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists
- count alessandro di cagliostro Italian who was famous as a magician and alchemist (1743-1795)
- philosophers' stone hypothetical substance that the alchemists believed to be capable of changing base metals into gold
- alkahestic of or pertaining to the alkahest that alchemists assumed to exist
- elixir of life a hypothetical substance believed to maintain life indefinitely; once sought by alchemists
- catholicon hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists