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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1721-1740
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CHEMY, n. Also chyme (prob. a dissyllable). Chemistry.Rnf. 1721–39 W. Hector Judicial Rec. (1876) I. 101–2:
He shall not go to any of the professors of medicine, chyme, anatomy, surgeri, or materia medica. . . . A practiser of chyme and medicine. Sc. 1740 G. Cheyne Essay on Regimen 56:
It is past all doubt in philosophy, and in philosophical Chemy, that animal substances of most kinds possess, in a much greater proportion, Salts and Oils than Vegetables.
[The form is ad. Fr. chimie, †chemie, †chymie, Late Lat. chemia, chimia.]
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