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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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Erodinium

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Erodinium

Spirits celestial influences and signs · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A sign understood as pointing towards a future event.

In the book. Essodinum is more specific about presaging by marks; Evestrum names a prophetic spirit associated with signs or something preceding an event.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 21; facsimile PDF page 349.

Historical Definition

Erodinium is the sign of something to come.

Meaning

The entry names a sign without specifying its medium or the event it foretells. Its meaning lies in the relation between a present indication and something expected to follow, rather than in a particular art of interpretation.

Use in the Book

Essodinum is more specific about presaging by marks; Evestrum names a prophetic spirit associated with signs or something preceding an event. Comparing the entries separates a sign, an interpretation of marks and a supposed sign-bearing agency. Erodinium itself supplies only the general future-directed relation.

Places to Read

Essodinum. Foretelling by interpreting marks.

Evestrum. A prophetic agency associated with signs preceding events.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 21; facsimile PDF page 349 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary 1650, s.v. Erodinium

See also. Essodinum; Evestrum

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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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