What's the difference between alchemist and alchymist?

Alchemist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who practices alchemy.

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  • (1) In that same National season, he teamed with Simon Callow (as Face) and Josie Lawrence (as Doll Common) in a co-production by Bill Alexander for the Birmingham Rep of Ben Jonson’s trickstering, two-faced masterpiece The Alchemist ; he was a comically pious Subtle in sackcloth and sandals.
  • (2) Alas, as I don’t have a copy of The Alchemist to hand – and with it a pencil to write, in the words of Woody Allen , “Yes, very true!” in every margin – I’ll just have to get on with it.
  • (3) Consistent with this origin of the word Chemeia is the fact that the earlier Alchemists were not Greeks but probably Bucharic speaks Copts or Egyptians.
  • (4) Nothing vibed until she met Ariel Rechtshaid in 2010, the musical alchemist behind Sky Ferreira , Solange and Haim's throwback pop collages, who was then a relative unknown.
  • (5) The good news is that the ultimate alchemist is still around.
  • (6) These have been retained in the symbols designed by alchemists of the Medieval Age without, however, revealing their origin or significance.
  • (7) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian With the beguiling hand of an architectural alchemist, Wilson has sliced a great circle out of a concrete facade in Liverpool and set it spinning.
  • (8) Filmed in a field, in black and white, with a cast of six, it's about three deserters from the English civil war, who fall into the hands of a murderous alchemist.
  • (9) In the circumstances, the paupers raised their game to a degree that reflected great credit on themselves, and in particular their alchemist of a manager.
  • (10) Shearsmith is undoubtedly its most compelling presence, notably in an extraordinary slo-mo sequence when he emerges from the alchemist's tent in a deeply sinister state of demonic ecstasy.
  • (11) Since they were basically alchemists and not astronomers, they apparently minimized the relationship between the Five Moving Stars and the human illnesses.
  • (12) Platter observed congenital cataract and was the first to notice that professional working near a fire (as in the case of alchemists!)
  • (13) He is especially eloquent on the latter’s performance as Abel Drugger, the easily tricked tobacconist in Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist.
  • (14) Ever since alchemists started trying to turn base metals into gold, chemists have been fiddling around with ways to make new substances, but it was in the 19th century that the whole endeavour really got going.
  • (15) Benjamin was an alchemist of sorts, the most unusual of Marxist intellectuals, a black sheep in every flock.
  • (16) The concert hall is LA's bash at the Bilbao Effect, but the alchemist-in-chief of cultural tourism turns down the clients who specify that notion.
  • (17) Known as the alchemist of modern imagistic theatre, Robert Lepage is one of the most challenging and chimeric directors of our time.
  • (18) In so far as this represents a quality which is as likely to be achieved as is the alchemist's dream of turning lead into gold, a compromise approach is recommended.
  • (19) But he was back on stage last year, first as a misogynist millionaire in Pauline Macaulay's The Creeper and then, more happily, as Sir Epicure Mammon in The Alchemist at the National.
  • (20) He also performed in Trevor Nunn's The Relapse (2001) and The Alchemist (2006), but was injured out early in the run.

Alchymist


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Alchymy

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