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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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Aromata

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At a Glance

The word. A class of materials defined by agreeable scent.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 7; facsimile PDF page 335.

Historical Definition

Aromata are all things that yield a sweet and pleasing smell.

Meaning

The plural gathers materials by an attributed sensory quality. It does not specify one botanical family, one imported spice or a single preparation. A passage using Aromata may later narrow the class with particular ingredients, but that detail is not built into the headword.

The definition is useful beside Odorifera because both concern smell vocabulary. A reader should still attend to whether a writer is classifying a substance by its ordinary scent or describing a change in scent during preparation. The term by itself names the quality, not its cause.

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Odorifera. Medicines grouped through the action attributed to their odour.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 7; facsimile PDF page 335 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Aromata ; compare Odorifera

See also. Odorifera

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About This Reading Edition

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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The historical 1650 English text is in the public domain. New introduction, commentary, reading guides and indexes are © 2026 Diotimos Editions and published with the site owner’s authorization.