English-French translations for alchemy

• alchimie
  En dehors de la simple alchimie politique, le véritable cancer social du chômage a-t-il seulement été mentionné? Aside from mere political alchemy, was the true social cancer of unemployment even mentioned?
  Pendant des siècles, le mercure a joué un rôle majeur dans l'alchimie et les sciences occultes. For many centuries, mercury had a crucial role in alchemy and the secret sciences.
  Cela est du, en grande partie, comme nous l'avons entendu aujourd'hui, à la sophistication des instruments financiers qui sont perçus par certains comme étant comparables à de l'alchimie. This is due by and large, as we have heard today, to the sophistication of financial instruments which are viewed by some as akin to alchemy.

Definition of alchemy

• The ancient search for a universal panacea, and of the philosopher's stone, that eventually developed into chemistry
• The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation
• Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm

Related words

• alchemist
• alchemical
• alchemically
• alchemistic
• alchemise
• alchemic
• alchemilla