† aˈdeptist
[f. adept a. + -ist.]
A professed adept, a skilled alchemist.
| 1662 J. Chandler Helmont's Oriatrike 2 Hypocrates, a man of a most rare gift, and a partaker with the Adeptists. 1671 J. Webster Metallogr. i. 16 Lock'd up in the breasts of a few mystical authors or Adeptists. 1715 Kersey Adepts or Adeptists, the obtaining sons of art, who are said to have found out the grand elixir, commonly called the philosopher's stone. |