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noun
A pure quality with the power to cure or to turn one substance into another; also, a substance such as a philosopher's stone able to turn one substance into another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, countable, figuratively, historical, uncountable
Topics: alchemy, pseudoscience
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noun
The product of such a transformation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, countable, figuratively, historical, obsolete, uncountable
Topics: alchemy, pseudoscience
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noun
A fine substance deposited by precipitation, formerly applied to certain white precipitates from metallic solutions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
A concentrated extract of a substance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, obsolete, uncountable
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
An art or a skill.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete
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noun
Synonym of magistracy (“the dignity or office of a magistrate; the collective body of magistrates”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete
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Synonyms: magistracy
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noun
A medicine prepared for a specific use.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete
Topics: biology, medicine, natural-sciences, pathology, pharmacology, sciences, veterinary, zoology
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noun
The quality possessed by a master; authority, mastership, mastery; also, the exercise of authority.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Synonym of magisterium (“the teaching authority or office of the Roman Catholic Church”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
Topics: Catholicism, Christianity, Roman-Catholicism
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Synonyms: magisterium
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History
PIE word *méǵh2s From Middle English magisteri, magistery (“academic degree of Master”), from Latin magisterium (“office of a chief, director, president, or superintendent; teaching office or authority of the Roman Catholic Church; authoritative statement”) (compare Late Latin magisterium (“philosopher’s stone”)), from magister (“master (title for a person in authority or one having a licence from a university to teach liberal arts and philosophy); teacher”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh2s (“big, great”) + *-teros (contrastive or oppositional suffix forming adjectives)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns, sometimes denoting groups and offices). By surface analysis, magister + -y. Doublet of magisterium. Cognate with French magistère, Old French magisteire.
