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Gerhard Dorn and John French

A Chymical Dictionary

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Liquor Mumiæ de gummi

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Liquor Mumiæ de gummi

Salts solvents and liquid preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A Mumia compound whose stated material is gum oil.

In the book. Liquor provides the general warning that the noun often means an oil when a material-name is added.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 30; facsimile PDF page 358.

Historical Definition

Liquor Mumiæ de gummi is oil of gum.

Meaning

The added words de gummi change the immediate referent. Although Liquor Mumiæ without that qualification is human fat, this full expression is defined as an oil of gum. Reading only the shared opening words would give the wrong material.

Use in the Book

Liquor provides the general warning that the noun often means an oil when a material-name is added. This entry is a concrete example of that rule and of the need to preserve complete technical compounds.

Places to Read

Liquor. A naming rule by which a qualified liquor can mean an oil.

Liquor Mumiæ. A Mumia compound explicitly identified as human fat.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 30; facsimile PDF page 358 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymical Dictionary 1650, 1650 dictionary, facsimile PDF page 358, Liquor Mumiæ de gummi

See also. Liquor; Liquor Mumiæ

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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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