Alembrot

Salts solvents and liquid preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A purified preparation identified with salt of tartar and its magistery.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 3; facsimile PDF page 331.

Historical Definition

Alembrot purified is salt of tartar and its magistery.

Meaning

The qualifier is essential. This is not simply a repeat of Alembroth, which the dictionary identifies with salt of Mercury or salt of the philosophers. Here, purification is tied specifically to tartar and its magistery. The entry gives an identification but no procedure sufficient to reconstruct the product. A reader should therefore keep the prepared form distinct until the surrounding passage supplies its relation to the unqualified name.

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Alembroth. A salt named through Mercury or the philosophers.

Tartarum. A wine-vessel deposit whose name also serves for bodily stones or gravel.

Magisterium. An extracted secret defined by a qualified kind of separation.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 3; facsimile PDF page 331 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Alembrot ; compare Alembroth, Tartarum, Magisterium

See also. Alembroth; Tartarum; Magisterium