Meaning of alkahestic | Babel Free

Definitions

Resembling or relating to alkahest.

Examples

“His intellect possesses a sort⟳ of alkahestic quality. No composite entity but breaks under his mental catalysis, and his sense⟳ of continuity seems to dissuade him from dissipating his thought into such grammatical individualities as sentences, for he ramifies his theme with clause after clause, in bewildering profusion, til a sentence extends sometimes through a score⟳ or more of lines of his book, and mental continuity well-nigh exhausts itself in wending the verbal causeway he throws across his thought.”

“"Look⟳ No Further for the Universal Solvent." I was manufacturing something alkahestic by the gutful, and I had to get⟳ rid⟳ of it somewhere.”

“Roland Wood had already been passed over twice, so he was definitely on the lookout for that alkahestic ledger that would put⟳ him on the cutting edge of promotions.”

“The back of god's T-shirt, which the opposing forces got a glimpse of just as god was about to dissolve and thereby make⟳ his extra-speedy, hasty retreat, had printed on it god's universal, alkahestic motto: Dieus le veult! ('The lord wishes it')”

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