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alkahest
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun alkahest has 1 sense
- alkahest(n = noun.substance) alcahest, universal solvent - hypothetical universal solvent once sought by alchemists; Array is a kind of dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent
Derived form adjective alkahestic1
CIDE DICTIONARY
alkahest, n. [LL. alchahest, F. alcahest, a word that has an Arabic appearance, but was probably arbitrarily formed by Paracelsus.].
The fabled “universal solvent” of the alchemists; a menstruum capable of dissolving all bodies. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
alkahest, n. (also alcahest) the universal solvent sought by alchemists.
Etymology
sham Arab., prob. invented by Paracelsus
ROGET THESAURUS
alkahest
Liquefaction
N liquefaction, liquescence, liquescency, melting, colliquation, colliquefaction, thaw, liquation, deliquation, deliquescence, lixiviation, dissolution, solution, apozem, lixivium, infusion, flux, solvent, menstruum, alkahest, liquefied, liquescent, liquefiable, deliquescent, soluble, colliquative.
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