alkahest
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alkahest
- /ˈal.kə.hɛst/ UK
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Borrowed from Late Latin alcahest, apparently coined by Paracelsus as a pseudo-Arabism.
noun alkahests · alcahest
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A universal solvent sought by the alchemists.
This perspective stimulated the alchemical quest for a ‘universal solvent’, that would dissolve and homogenize all substances – a solvent that Paracelsus named the alkahest.
Similar: universal solvent, firewater
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