"alchemy" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈælkəmi/ [US] Audio: en-us-alchemy.ogg [US] Forms: alchemies [plural]
Etymology: From Old French alkimie, arquemie (French alchimie), from Medieval Latin alchēmia, from Arabic اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ), from Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā, “art of alloying metals”), perhaps from Χημία (Khēmía, “black earth (ancient name for Egypt)”) and/or χυμός (khumós, “juice, sap”). Compare Spanish alquimia and Italian alchimia. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fro|alkimie}} Old French alkimie, {{m|fro|arquemie}} arquemie, {{cog|fr|alchimie}} French alchimie, {{der|en|ML.|alchēmia}} Medieval Latin alchēmia, {{der|en|ar|كيمياء|اَلْكِيمِيَاء}} Arabic اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ), {{der|en|grc|χυμείᾱ|t=art of alloying metals}} Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā, “art of alloying metals”), {{m|grc|Χημία||black earth (ancient name for Egypt)}} Χημία (Khēmía, “black earth (ancient name for Egypt)”), {{m|grc|χυμός||juice, sap}} χυμός (khumós, “juice, sap”), {{cog|es|alquimia}} Spanish alquimia, {{cog|it|alchimia}} Italian alchimia Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} alchemy (countable and uncountable, plural alchemies)
  1. (uncountable) The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China; and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Alchemy Translations (ancient chemistry): alchemie (Afrikaans), χυμεία (khumeía) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), اَلْخِيمِيَاء (al-ḵīmiyāʔ) [feminine] (Arabic), خِيمِيَاء (ḵīmiyāʔ) [feminine] (Arabic), ալքիմիա (alkʿimia) (Armenian), əlkimya (Azerbaijani), алхі́мія (alxímija) [feminine] (Belarusian), কিমিয়া (kimiẏa) (Bengali), alkimiezh [feminine] (Breton), алхи́мия (alhímija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), alquímia [feminine] (Catalan), 煉金術 (Chinese Mandarin), 炼金术 (liànjīnshù) (Chinese Mandarin), alkemi [masculine] (Cornish), alchymie [feminine] (Czech), alkymi [common-gender] (Danish), alchemie [feminine] (Dutch), scheikunde [feminine] (Dutch), alkemio (Esperanto), alĥemio (Esperanto), alkeemia (Estonian), alkemia (Finnish), alchimie [feminine] (French), alquimia [feminine] (Galician), ალქიმია (alkimia) (Georgian), Alchemie [feminine] (German), αλχημεία (alchimeía) [feminine] (Greek), אַלְכִּימְיָה (alkimiya) [feminine] (Hebrew), कीमिया (kīmiyā) [feminine] (Hindi), कीमियागरी (kīmiyāgrī) [feminine] (Hindi), रसायन (rasāyan) [historical, masculine] (Hindi), alkímia (Hungarian), aranycsinálás (Hungarian), gullgerðarlist [feminine] (Icelandic), alkimia (Indonesian), ailceimic [feminine] (Irish), alchimia [feminine] (Italian), 錬金術 (renkinjutsu) (alt: れんきんじゅつ) (Japanese), 黄金術 (ōgonjutsu) (alt: おうごんじゅつ) (Japanese), 煉丹術 (rentanjutsu) (alt: れんたんじゅつ) (Japanese), ರಸವಿದ್ಯೆ (rasavidye) (Kannada), алхимия (alximiä) (Kazakh), រសវិទ្យា (ros vityie) (Khmer), រសាយនវិទ្យា (rĕəʼsaayaʼnaʼvityiə) (Khmer), 연금술 (yeon'geumsul) (alt: 鍊金術) (Korean), алхимия (alhimiya) (Kyrgyz), alchemia [feminine] (Latin), alķīmija [feminine] (Latvian), алхимия (alχimiä) (Lezgi), alsjemie [feminine] (Limburgish), alchemija [feminine] (Lithuanian), алхемија (alhemija) [feminine] (Macedonian), alkimia (Malay), far-chemmig [feminine] (Manx), alkymi [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), alkymi [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), alquimia [feminine] (Occitan), کیمیا (kimiyâ) (Persian), کیمیاگری (kimiyâgari) (Persian), alchemia [feminine] (Polish), alchimia [archaic] (Polish), alquimia [feminine] (Portuguese), alchimie [feminine] (Romanian), алхи́мия (alxímija) [feminine] (Russian), sgoil na cumaisg (Scottish Gaelic), алке́мија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), alkemija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), alchýmia [feminine] (Slovak), alkimija [feminine] (Slovene), alquimia [feminine] (Spanish), alkemi [common-gender] (Swedish), pagbabalahak (Tagalog), இரசவாதம் (iracavātam) (Tamil), రసవాదము (rasavādamu) (Telugu), รสายนเวท (rá-sǎa-yá-ná-wêet) (Thai), การเล่นแร่แปรธาตุ (gaan-lên-rɛ̂ɛ-bprɛɛ-tâat) (Thai), simya (Turkish), alhimiýa (Turkmen), алхі́мія (alxímija) [feminine] (Ukrainian), کیمیا (kīmiyā) [feminine, historical] (Urdu), alkimyo (Uzbek), thuật giả kim (Vietnamese), lalkim (Volapük), alcemeg [feminine] (Welsh), alcemi [masculine] (Welsh)
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  2. (countable) The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation. Tags: countable Translations (causing of mysterious transmutation): alchimie [feminine] (French), αλχημεία (alchimeía) [feminine] (Greek), alchemia [feminine] (Polish), alquimia [feminine] (Portuguese), alkemija [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), alquimia [feminine] (Spanish), simya (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-alchemy-en-noun-qWcwYToe Categories (other): English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 38 45 17 Disambiguation of 'causing of mysterious transmutation': 23 69 8
  3. (computing, slang, countable) Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm. Tags: countable, slang Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-alchemy-en-noun-guDKST2w Categories (other): English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 38 45 17 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: protoscience, pseudoscience Derived forms: alchemical, alchemise, alchemist, alchemistic, alchemistical, alchemize, algeny, practical alchemy Related terms: elixir of life, philosophers' stone

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          "text": "[Poetry] transmutes all that it touches, and every form moving within the radiance of its presence is changed by wondrous sympathy to an incarnation of the spirit which it breathes: its secret alchemy turns to potable gold the poisonous waters which flow from death through life; it strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bare the naked and sleeping beauty, which is the spirit of its forms.",
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        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "αλχημεία"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "causing of mysterious transmutation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alchemia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "causing of mysterious transmutation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alquimia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "causing of mysterious transmutation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alkemija"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "causing of mysterious transmutation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alquimia"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "causing of mysterious transmutation",
      "word": "simya"
    }
  ],
  "word": "alchemy"
}

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