These are the athanor -- immortal but not invincible -- and many dream of the day they can live openly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

Alchemy contributed to this appraisal of the vital cycle that was thought to be realized in the alchemist's oven (athanor); and the incorruptible nature of the starry world lost its prestige.    From Wordnik.com.  [COSMIC IMAGES] Reference

On the contrary, the jumble of experiences and impressions which fell to the lot of the author as to us all had assuredly been placed in the athanor of art, in that furnace of the sages which is said to be governed with wisdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Ship] Reference

Plate 6, fig. A, shows an athanor (or digesting furnace) and a couple of digesting vessels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alchemy: Ancient and Modern] Reference

In fact, a strong and determined will can, in a little while, attain complete independence; and we all possess that chemical instrument, the great and single athanor or furnace, which serves to separate the subtile from the gross, and the fixed from the volatile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference

"My son," M. d'Asterac began to say again, "you do not sufficiently feed the athanor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Queen Pedauque] Reference

"From documents which we posses we can see his supervising the construction of the athanor, or alchemists 'furnace, buying pelicans, crucibles, and retorts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Là-bas] Reference

Her athanor had been alight for fifteen years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

2:10 pm well, i don’t know about dancing any more – back when i was living in paris, more or less directly under the pont alexandre iii, we used to go to an anarchist club called athanor in the rue des saints peres. must be long gone now – along with the old polly magoo. last time i was over, i went to le baron rouge – and very nice it was too. but is that a terrible cliche now? in london, i’d do brunch at smith’s of smithfield. i highly recommend it, next time you swan over to meet your publisher.    From Wordnik.com.  [nocturne] Reference