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February 24th, 2005 at 12:07 pm alkahest, when I read your quote: “despite having armpit-length hair”, my first thought was “huh? armpit hair is short…”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hair and freedom, then and now] Reference

We have discovered the political alkahest or universal solvent of the alchemists, and with it we reduce at once the national characteristics of foreigners into our well-known American compound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference

Satisfied with this announcement of the discovery of the philosopher's stone, I now inquired about the sublime alkahest or universal solvent, and whether he had succeeded in deciphering the enigmatical descriptions of the ancient writers on that most curious topic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 342, November 22, 1828] Reference

Nor shall I expatiate on the alkahest of that mad scoundrel, Paracelsus, with which he pretended to reduce flints into salt; nor archaeus or spiritus rector of that visionary Van Helmont, his simple, elementary water, his gas, ferments, and transmutations; nor shall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves] Reference

Some of them preferred cementation; others sought the universal alkahest or dissolvent; and some of them boasted the great efficacy of the essence of emery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference

In the course of a few years, he became desperately addicted to the study of alchymy, and thought of nothing but the philosopher's stone, the elixir of life, and the universal alkahest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference

He discoursed learnedly upon projections, cimentations, sublimations, the elixir of life, and the universal alkahest; and on the death of Delisle gave out that the secret of that great adept had been communicated to him, and to him only.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference

Rupecissa and Sacrobosco having fallen into their hands, they were persuaded, from reading them, that highly rectified spirits of wine was the universal alkahest, or dissolvent, which would aid them greatly in the process of transmutation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference

He avowed his belief in the philosopher's stone, the water of life, and the universal alkahest; and maintained that there were but two principles of all things, -- which were, condensation, the boreal or northern virtue; and rarefaction, the southern or austral virtue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference

alkahest, when I read your quote: “despite having armpit-length hair”, my first thought was “huh? armpit hair is short…”?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hair and freedom, then and now] Reference

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Now, this here elixir, sold for no more than sixpence a phial, contains the essence of the alkahest, the archaeus, the catholicon, the menstruum, the sun, the moon, and, to sum up all in one word, is the true, genuine, unadulterated, unchangeable, immaculate, and specific chruseon pepuromenon ek puros.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves] Reference