#alchimist

• Alchemist — A person who practiced alchemy in Antiquity or the Middle Ages, engaging in secret laboratory experiments to transmute metals and discover the elixir of life; a precursor to the modern chemist. As an adjective, it describes a person or action reminiscent of the occult techniques or mysterious transformations specific to these scholars.
• Female alchemist — A woman who practiced alchemy in Antiquity or the Middle Ages, performing laboratory experiments for the transmutation of metals, obtaining the Philosopher's Stone, or discovering the universal panacea. Although historiography has recorded fewer names, figures such as Mary the Jewess are recognized as founding personalities of early distillation techniques and laboratory apparatus.
• Archaic alchemist — An old, archaic, or regional phonetic variant for alchemist; a person from the Middle Ages or Renaissance who practiced alchemy, seeking the transmutation of base metals into gold or silver via the philosopher's stone. In ancient literature, it described court scholars manipulating primitive chemicals.