Spagʹiric Food.
Cagliostro’s “elixir of immortal youth” was so called from the Latin word spagirʹicus (chemical). Hence, chemistry is termed the “spagʹiric art,” and a chemist is a spagʹirist.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.