philosophers' stone in English
noun
1
a mythical substance supposed to change any metal into gold or silver and, according to some, to cure all diseases and prolong life indefinitely. Its discovery was the supreme object of alchemy.
Kristina continued her alchemical studies, trying to find the philosopher's stone and turn lead into gold.
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1. Adrop definition is - a substance (as lead) believed essential to evolving the philosophers' stone.
2. The optick glasse of humors or The touchstone of a golden temperature, or the Philosophers stone to make a golden temper: wherein the foure complections sanguine, cholericke, phligmaticke, melancholicke are succinctly painted forth and their externall intimates laid open to the purblind eye of ignorance it selfe, by which euery one may iudge, of what complection he is, and Answerably learne