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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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Cineritium

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At a Glance

The word. A cement associated with gold or silver, also named Regale.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 16; facsimile PDF page 344.

Historical Definition

Cineritium is cement of gold or silver, which some call Regale.

Meaning

The definition identifies a preparation through the metals involved and records an alternative name used by some authors. That qualification should remain: it does not establish that Regale has only this sense everywhere. The entry also does not state which metal or accompanying materials a particular passage intends.

Cementum supplies the related description of dry corrosion and calcination with salts or drying things. Read the process entry beside this material name, while preserving the difference between a named cement and the broader action. Gold and silver are alternatives in the historical definition, not a requirement that both always be present.

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Cementum. A dry metal-working operation using salts or similar materials.

Regale. A cement used in the purification of gold.

Chrysos. A direct name equivalence for gold.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 16; facsimile PDF page 344 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Cineritium ; compare Cementum, Regale, Chrysos, Luna

See also. Cementum; Regale; Chrysos; Luna

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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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