chymistry

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chymistry (usually uncountable, plural chymistries)

(historical) Early Modern chemistry, as proto-scientific and not fully distinct from alchemy.
- 2006, Daniel Garber, “Physics and Foundations”, in Katharine Park, editor, Early Modern Science (Cambridge History of Science)‎^[1], volume 3, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 29:
  But the sixteenth century was a time of particular interest in chymistry. The idea of chymistry meant many things to many people of the period, and it is very dangerous to generalize. Chymistry was both theory and practice, involving both an account of at least a part of the natural world and an application of that understanding to the practical problems of transforming base metals into gold and silver.
Obsolete form of chemistry.
- 1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China‎^[2], London: John Macock, →OCLC, page 240:
  The Hill Kieuchin, near to Hanyang, has its name from nine Virgins that were Siſters, and lived always Maids upon this Hill ſtudying Chymiſtry.
- 1821 October 6, The Times, London:
  Mr Mackenzie's usefull and important Volume, which applies all the modern Discoveries in CHYMISTRY to the Arts of Life, and to the various branches of Manufacture, accompanied by numerous engravings and wood-cuts, is now on SALE at the shops of all the booksellers in the United Kingdom