chemistical

English

Alternative forms
  • chymistical

Etymology

From chemist +‎ -ical.

Adjective

chemistical (comparative more chemistical, superlative most chemistical)

  1. (obsolete) Chemical.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection iv:
      Paracelsus and his chymistical followers, as so many Promethei, will fetch fire from heaven, will cure all manner of diseases with minerals, accounting them the only physick on the other side.

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