chemic — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Practising chemistry (or, earlier, alchemy); pertaining to these sciences.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • not-comparable

2. Produced through alchemy; counterfeit.

   Usage

   • not-comparable
   • Obsolete

   Examples

   a chymic treasure / Is glittering Youth, which I have spent betimes— / My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

3. Chemical.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • not-comparable

Noun

1. A chemist or (earlier) an alchemist.

   Usage

   • Archaic

   Examples

   like the Chymicks masculine equall fire, / Which in the Lymbecks warme wombe doth inspire / Into th'earths worthlesse part a soule of gold […]

2. A solution of chloride of lime, used in bleaching.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

Verb

1. To bleach with a solution of chloride of lime.

   Usage

   • Obsolete
   • Transitive

Adjective

1. relating to or used in chemistry

   Synonyms

   chemical

   Examples

   chemical engineer

   chemical balance