Associations to the word «Alchemist»

Wiktionary

ALCHEMIST, noun. One who practices alchemy.
ALCHEMIST, noun. One who blends material or substances in the nature or supposed nature of alchemy.

Dictionary definition

ALCHEMIST, noun. One who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats