English Dictionary

alchemy

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈælkəmi/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞 俗語

(uncountable) The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.

日本語の意味

錬金術 – 古代から近代初期にかけて行われた、物質の変化に関する研究。主に不老不死の秘薬、万能薬、または凡庸な金属を金に変えるとされる賢者の石の探求を目的とした学問や実践を指す。

She devoted her life to alchemy, poring over ancient recipes and conducting experiments in search of an elixir of immortality.

彼女は生涯を錬金術に捧げ、古い処方を読み耽り、不死の霊薬や万能の薬を求めて実験を行った。

意味（1）

(uncountable) The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.

And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Æsop makes the fable; that, when he died, told his sons that he had left unto them gold buried underground in his vineyard; and they digged over all the ground, and gold they found none; but by reason of their stirring and digging the mould about the roots of their vines, they had a great vintage the year following: so assuredly the search and stir to make gold hath brought to light a great number of good and fruitful inventions and experiments, as well for the disclosing of nature as for the use of man’s life.

意味（2）

(countable) The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.

O, he sits high in all the people’s hearts: And that which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness.

意味（3）

(computing, slang, countable) Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.

alchemies （ plural ）