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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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Vndosa

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Vndosa

Plants animals and natural materials · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A collective animal-excrement name.

In the book. Rebis is locally identified with excrement of the belly.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 47; facsimile PDF page 375.

Historical Definition

Vndosa are the excrements of any animals.

Meaning

Any animals makes the gloss broader than a product from one species. The definition supplies a material category without describing an operation or a use.

Use in the Book

Rebis is locally identified with excrement of the belly. The related glosses are useful to compare while preserving the present entry’s wider animal qualification.

Places to Read

Rebis. Rebis in this dictionary denotes bodily excrement.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 47; facsimile PDF page 375 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Vndosa; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 375; compare Rebis

See also. Rebis

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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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