ˈspagyrist
Also 7–8 spagirist.
[ad. mod.L. spagirista (F. spagiriste): see spagyric a.]
An alchemist.
| α 1652 J. Wright tr. Camus' Nat. Paradox xi. 280 The Spagirists in seeking the Union of Essences have..found out the dissolving of all naturall Bodies. 1660 J. H[arding] Basil. Valent. Chariot Antim. 1 A brief admonition concerning some Præcognita, which a Spagirist..ought to be acquainted with. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey). |
| β 1661 Boyle (title), The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrists' Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical. 1675 Phil. Trans. X. 516 Those Spagyrists that possess or aspire to the nobler Arcana of Gold and Mercury. 1756 T. Amory J. Buncle (1825) I. 266 A man of great skill in the labours and operations of spagyrists. |
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ˈspagyrite.
rare.
| 1666 Boyle Orig. Forms & Qual. 58 Other things which Spagyrites obtaine from mixt Bodies. 1697 Evelyn Numismata ix. 328 A troop of Spagirits. |