Meaning of elixirist | Babel Free

Definitions

Someone who makes or advocates using elixirs for the curing of ills.

Examples

“There was the school of simplicity, socialism, and universal love⟳, the head of which was a Quixotic Diogenes called Mêh-tsz or Meccius (fifth century b.c.); the school of denominationalists, or pedantic adherents to the letter of absolutely defined principles; the legists, or partisans of a system of repression and punishment (on the Plehve-Pobyedonóschtschoff basis); the astrologists, or believers in occult influences; the medicals or elixirists; the sensualists; and many others, recalling to our minds the various divisions of Greek philosophy at the same period.”

“In Tang dynasty alchemist elixir really flourished. Unfortunately the art did not stand⟳ real testing. Three of the Emperors who took the elixir died of poison. Taoist elixirists were blamed and executed, and the art suffered a fatal blow⟳. Evidently a new approach⟳ to the development of an elixir was in order⟳.”

“If Western thinking arrived at a dualism of “God the father” and “Mother Earth,” Chinese elixirists strove to transcend the yin materiality of earth and rise⟳ to the yang spirituality of heaven.”

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