Elixirist

Quick meaning: Elixirist is a noun meaning Someone who makes or advocates using elixirs for the curing of ills.

Meaning

Someone who makes or advocates using elixirs for the curing of ills.

Example Sentences

If Western thinking arrived at a dualism of “God the father” and “Mother Earth,” Chinese elixirists strove to transcend the yin materiality of earth and rise to the yang spirituality of heaven.

In Tang dynasty alchemist elixir really flourished. Unfortunately the art did not stand real testing. Three of the Emperors who took the elixir died of poison. Taoist elixirists were blamed and executed, and the art suffered a fatal blow. Evidently a new approach to the development of an elixir was in order.

Word Forms

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