Cardonium

Salts solvents and liquid preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. An herbal wine defined by its intended medicinal character.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 14; facsimile PDF page 342.

Historical Definition

Cardonium is a medicinal wine made from herbs.

Meaning

The definition places the term in the family of prepared wines rather than treating it as an unqualified drink. Herbs supply the additional material, while “medicinal” records its intended role in the historical account. No particular herb, strength or method is named here.

Alcool vini concerns rectified spirit of wine, a different preparation, and should not automatically replace this herbal wine. The broader wine vocabulary can describe starting materials, liquids altered by distillation or mixtures made for a purpose. The complete term and its preparation determine the relevant sense.

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Alcool vini. The wine-qualified term for rectified spirit.

Vinum correctum. A wine preparation referred to alcohol of wine.

Vinum essatum. Wine carrying the powers attributed to another material.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 14; facsimile PDF page 342 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Cardonium ; compare Alcool vini, Vinum correctum, Vinum essatum

See also. Alcool vini; Vinum correctum; Vinum essatum