a.; also 7–9 alchym-. [f. ALCHEMIST + -IC.] Of or pertaining to alchemy or alchemists.
1689. Packe, trans. Glauber, I. 240. The Alchymistick Virtues absconded in Vitriol.
1846. Sabine, trans. Humboldt’s Cosmos (1849), II. 342. What was accidentally remarked in alchemistic laboratories.
1854. Lady Lytton, Behind Scenes, II. II. xiii. 310. The true alchymistic secret of accumulation,—that of saving farthings.
