chemicとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From New Latin chemicus, chimicus, chymicus.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkɛmɪk/

  韻: -ɛmɪk

形容詞

chemic (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Practising chemistry (or, earlier, alchemy); pertaining to these sciences.
2. (obsolete) Produced through alchemy; counterfeit.
   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I.217:

     a chymic treasure / Is glittering Youth, which I have spent betimes— / My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

3. (now rare) Chemical.

名詞

chemic (plural chemics)

1. (now rare) A chemist or (earlier) an alchemist.
   • 1633, John Donne, The Comparison:

     like the Chymicks masculine equall fire, / Which in the Lymbecks warme wombe doth inspire / Into th'earths worthlesse part a soule of gold […]

2. (obsolete) A solution of chloride of lime, used in bleaching.

動詞

chemic (third-person singular simple present chemics, present participle chemicking, simple past and past participle chemicked)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To bleach with a solution of chloride of lime.

派生語