Meaning of archchemic | Babel Free

Definitions

Of supreme chemical powers.

not-comparable, rare

Examples

“[...] 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”

“We do not propose⟳ to discuss⟳ the nature of light⟳. Newton’s theory that light⟳ consisted of infinitesimal particles of matter⟳, afterwards gave place⟳ to the theory that light⟳ is propagated like⟳ sound⟳ by infinitesimal waves. The spectroscope upsets all these speculations, and throws new light⟳ so to speak⟳ on sunshine. We are not quite ready to agree⟳ with Steinmetz that “light⟳ is metallic, that sunshine consists of a metallic shower, and bathes us with elementary iron⟳, rodium, magnesium, calcium, chromium, nickel, barium, copper, and sine,” but we do agree⟳ with him that all animal and vegetable life can be traced to the “archchemic sun.””

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

“In Metaphysical Points, here is what I guess⟳ about pure and positive truths. I guess⟳ that after all reasoning and analogy, and their most palpable demonstrations of anything, we have⟳ the real satisfaction when the soul tells and tests by its own⟳ archchemic power — superior to the learnedest proofs as one glance⟳ of living sight is more than quarto volumes of description and of maps.”

“A fine gallery of pictures is a sort⟳ of illustration of Berkeley's Theory of Matter⟳ and Spirit. It is like⟳ a palace of thought — another universe, built of air, of shadows, of colours. Every thing seems "palpable to feeling as to sight." Substances turn⟳ to shadows by the painter's archchemic touch⟳; shadows harden into substances. " The eye is made the fool of the other senses, or else worth all the rest⟳.'* The material is in some sense⟳ embodied in the immaterial, or, at least, we see⟳ all things in a sort⟳ of intellectual mirror.)”

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