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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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Alcofol

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At a Glance

The word. A variant-name entry identifying stibium or antimony.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 3; facsimile PDF page 331.

Historical Definition

Alcofol, or, as some would have it, Alcosol, is stibium or antimony.

Meaning

The historical entry preserves disagreement about the spelling as well as an identification. Both Alcofol and Alcosol should therefore remain findable. Their resemblance to Alcol or Alcohol must not cause the entries to be merged: the latter is defined here as a fine powder of anything. This one names a particular material through the linked terms stibium and antimony. The distinction is lexical evidence supplied by the dictionary itself.

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Stibium. A historical name equated with antimony.

Alcol. A term for extreme fineness of powder, not necessarily a liquid.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 3; facsimile PDF page 331 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Alcofol ; compare Stibium, Alcol

See also. Stibium; Alcol

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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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