v. Forms: 7 alcumise, -ize, 7–9 alchymize, 7– alchemise, -ize. [f. ALCHEM-IST, which on analogy of words in -IST, implied a vb. in -ize. Cf. baptist and baptize.] To change, as by alchemy; to transmute.
1603. H. Crosse, Vertues Commw. (1878), 43. The Artificer [would] Alcumize his Instruments into gold.
1683. trans. Erasmus Mor. Encom., 94. These subtleties are Alchymized to a more refined Sublimate.
1850. Mrs. Browning, Poems, II. 231. Darkly brown thy body is, Till the sunshine, striking this [i.e., the hair], Alchemise its dulness.
