Literary notes about MAGISTERY (AI summary)
The word magistery carries a multifaceted significance in literature, functioning both as a technical term in alchemy and as a metaphor for ultimate authority or perfection. In several texts, it names specific substances—such as the precipitate of bismuth, lead, or sulphur—with connotations ranging from hazardous chemical reactions ([1], [2], [3]) to practical processes in material preparation ([4], [5]). In a more abstract sense, magistery is used to evoke the quintessence of perfection or an ideal state, as seen in discussions of the philosopher’s stone and its sublime qualities ([6], [7], [8]). This dual usage extends further into moral and scholarly discourse, where the term subtly underscores superiority and wisdom ([9], [10], [11]).
- —The nitrate or magistery of bismuth has caused death in nine days, after a dose of two drachms.
— from Memoranda on Poisons by Thomas Hawkes Tanner - This [Pg 70] precipitate is extremely white, and known by the name of Magistery of Bismuth .
— from Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry, 5th ed. by Pierre Joseph Macquer - From the solution of bismuth in this acid, a white substance, called magistery of bismuth , is precipitated by the [Pg 114] affusion of water.
— from Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley - The Sulphur thus deposited on the bottom of the vessel is called the Magistery or Precipitate of Sulphur .
— from Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry, 5th ed. by Pierre Joseph Macquer - Lead thus separated from the Acid of Vinegar by an Alkali is called Magistery of Lead .
— from Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry, 5th ed. by Pierre Joseph Macquer - And first as regards the nature of the philosopher’s stone—the grand magistery, the quintessence.
— from History of Chemistry, Volume 1 (of 2) From the earliest time to the middle of the nineteenth century by T. E. (Thomas Edward) Thorpe - They are, "Of the Search of Perfection;" "Of the Sum of Perfection or of the Perfect Magistery;" "Of the Invention of Verity, of Perfection."
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - The second is entitled, “Of the Sum of Perfection, or of the perfect Magistery.”
— from The History of Chemistry, Volume 1 (of 2) by Thomas Thomson - Furbo and I are those intelligences That must attend upon the magistery.
— from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 11 - Leauynge now our morall discourse of a carefull Mayster, of a prouydent Scholer, of a vertuous Emperoure, of a sacred Senate, and vniforme magistery,
— from The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 2 - He answered, 'Their writings are only to be understood by the adepts, without whom no student can prepare this magistery.
— from The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. To which is added a small budget of interesting paradoxes, illusions, and marvels by John Phin
