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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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Baurac

Salts solvents and liquid preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A broad name for brine rather than one specified salt solution.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 11; facsimile PDF page 339.

Historical Definition

Baurac is any kind of brine.

Meaning

The phrase “any kind” is the key qualification. It permits different brines within the category and supplies no unique salt, source or concentration. A reader should therefore preserve any material qualifier supplied by the surrounding author. The headword alone cannot establish that two historical brines had the same composition.

Muria supplies another brine term in the dictionary. Linking the names makes the text easier to search while leaving differences among individual preparations to their actual descriptions.

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Muria. A direct name for brine.

Liquor salis. A saline liquor understood through its preservative action.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 11; facsimile PDF page 339 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Baurac ; compare Muria, Liquor salis

See also. Muria; Liquor salis

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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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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.