spagyric

• spageric, spagiric

Late Latin spagyricus, from Ancient Greek σπάω (spáō, “I draw, pull”) + ἀγείρω (ageírō, “I assemble”).

• IPA^(key): /spəˈd͡ʒɪɹɪk/

spagyric (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to alchemy; alchemical, especially regarding medicine.
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 200:

     As such compromises and syntheses suggest, it was not only hardline Paracelsans who embraced spagyric remedies.

   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 135:

     The necessary spagyric substances having been obtained, they were shut up in a glass phial and left to incubate in horse dung for forty days.

• spagyrist

spagyric (plural spagyrics)

1. (obsolete) A spagyrist.