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Gerhard Dorn and John French

A Chymical Dictionary

An Expanded Diotimos Lexicon of Paracelsian and Alchemical Language

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Anotasier

Salts solvents and liquid preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. Three historical names for sal ammoniac.

In this edition. A textual note records the reading of the 1650 printing and the editorial treatment.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 4; facsimile PDF page 332.

Historical Definition

Anotasier, Aliocab and Alemzadar are sal ammoniac.

Meaning

The three spellings are explicitly grouped by the dictionary and should all lead to this entry. Their usefulness is particularly clear beside figurative names such as Aquila, where the material is associated with its behaviour in sublimation. An unfamiliar word in one passage and an eagle in another may thus belong to the same interpretive family, but the surrounding operation must establish the connection. This brief entry itself gives a name equivalence, not a manufacturing process.

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Aquila. An eagle-name with more than one stated material meaning.

Myssadar. An alternative name for mercury.

Nysadir. An alternative name for sal ammoniac.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 4; facsimile PDF page 332 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Anotasier ; compare Aquila, Myssadar, Nysadir

See also. Aquila; Myssadar; Nysadir

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The complete 706 historical definitions of the 1650 English dictionary, modernised and accompanied by expanded Diotimos commentary, reading routes, 15 textual notes and complete linked indexes.

Historical Text

A Chymicall Dictionary, London 1650, English version associated with John French, based on Gerhard Dorn’s Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi. The containing volume also prints Sendivogius and Paracelsus; neither neighboring work changes this dictionary’s attribution.

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Complete 706 definition paragraphs with new introduction, commentary, reading guides and indexes; Diotimos Editions, 2026.

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The historical 1650 English text is in the public domain. New introduction, commentary, reading guides and indexes are © 2026 Diotimos Editions and published with the site owner’s authorization.