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athanor

[ ath-uh-nawr ]

noun

Alchemy.
  1. a digester furnace with a self-feeding fuel supply contained in a towerlike contrivance, ensuring a constant, durable temperature.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of athanor1

1425–75; late Middle English ≪ Arabic at tannūr the furnace
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Example Sentences

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We know of the athanor of the alchemists of the middle ages.

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None of us would have admitted that we believed in stone or elixir, the old Oxfordshire clergyman excited no belief, yet one among us certainly laboured with crucible or athanor.

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From documents which we posses we can see his supervising the construction of the athanor, or alchemists' furnace, buying pelicans, crucibles, and retorts.

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My son," M. d'Asterac began to say again, "you do not sufficiently feed the athanor.

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There was no conflagration but a terrible fire, burning in a big furnace with reflectors, which as I have since learned are called athanors.

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