chemic means practising chemistry (or, earlier, alchemy); pertaining to these sciences. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.
adj
- Practising chemistry (or, earlier, alchemy); pertaining to these sciences.
- Produced through alchemy; counterfeit.“a chymic treasure / Is glittering Youth, which I have spent betimes— / My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.”
- Chemical.
noun
- A chemist or (earlier) an alchemist.“like the Chymicks masculine equall fire, / Which in the Lymbecks warme wombe doth inspire / Into th'earths worthlesse part a soule of gold […]”
- A solution of chloride of lime, used in bleaching.
verb
- To bleach with a solution of chloride of lime.