Crossword-Solution: AZOTH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Azoth | n. | The first principle of metals, i. e., mercury, which was formerly supposed to exist in all metals, and to be extractable from them. |
| Azoth | n. | The universal remedy of Paracelsus. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “AZOTH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Alchemists' mercury | 1 answer |
| Mercury, to alchemists | 1 answer |
| Mercury, to an alchemist | 1 answer |
| Universal remedy of Paracelsus | 1 answer |
| Universal remedy propounded by Paracelsus | 1 answer |
| alchemist mercury | 1 answer |
| Mercury in alchemy | 2 answers |
| Quicksilver | 2 answers |
| Mercury | 14 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AZOTH (5)
When he practised as a physician at Basle, he called one of his nostrums by the name of azoth--a stone or crystal, which, he said, contained magnetic properties, and cured epilepsy, hysteria, and spasmodic affections.
For [92] _Stephanus_ tells us: Ταυτην εκτισεν ‛εις των επανελθοντων απ' Ερυθρας θαλασσης Φευγαδων: _One of the Fugitives from the Red Sea built_ Azoth: that is, a Prince of _Edom_, who fled from _David_, fortified _Azoth_ for the _Philistims_ against him.
The prima materia of the Great Work, in the Superior World, is enthusiasm and activity; in the intermediate world, intelligence and industry; in the lower world, labor: and, in Science, it is the Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt, which by turns volatilized and fixed, compose the AZOTH of the Sages.
This Stone, says the Masters in Alchemy, is the true _Salt_ of the philosophers, which enters as one-third into the composition of Azoth.
But Azoth is, as we know, the name of the grand Hermetic Agent, and the true philosophical Agent: wherefore they represent their Salt under the form of a cubical Stone.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal, WP.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1973–2001).