archchemic

English

Etymology

arch- +‎ chemic

Adjective

archchemic (not comparable)

1. (rare) Of supreme chemical powers.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 618–621:

     [...] with one vertuous touch
     Th' Arch-chimic Sun ſo farr from us remote
     Produces with Terreſtrial Humor mixt
     Here in the dark ſo many precious things

   • a. 1892, Walt Whitman, notes (later published as Preparatory Reading and Thought)

     When the soul tells and tests by its own archchemic power.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “archchemic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)