The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.
Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.
The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.
The science which treats of magnetic phenomena.
The property of being magnetic.
Animal magnetism.
Power of attraction; power to excite the feelings and to gain the affections.