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spa·gyr·ic  (sp-gîrk) also spa·gyr·i·cal (--kl)
adj.
Relating to or resembling alchemy; alchemical.
[New Latin spagiricus, probably coined by Paracelsus.]
spagyric [spəˈdʒɪrɪk], spagyrical
adj
(Chemistry / Alchemy) Rare of or relating to alchemy
[from New Latin spagiricus, probably coined by Paracelsus, of obscure origin]
spagyrically  adv
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Boyle and Newton drew on a well-developed experimental tradition and corpuscular matter theory derived from thirteenth-century Aristotelian alchemy and fused with Paracelsian spagyrical methods: it was seventeenth-century alchemy and iatrochemistry that provided them with the materialist theoretical basis and quantitative experimental methods on which to develop a replacement for Aristotle's substantial forms, not the Cartesian clockwork mechanism and Gassendian atomism.
The Cambridge History of Science by Shackelford, Jole / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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