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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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Chymus

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At a Glance

The word. A residue term rather than the name of one fixed material.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 16; facsimile PDF page 344.

Historical Definition

Chymus is feces or residue.

Meaning

The historical identifying word concerns matter left or rejected in a process. The entry does not specify the starting substance or operation, so a precise composition cannot be inferred from the headword alone. The surrounding passage must identify what remains and what has been removed.

Caput mortuum gives a more operationally qualified example: residue after distillation or sublimation. Caseus præparatus describes a viscous settled residue in a dairy setting. These comparisons show why a general residue word can apply to materially different things without making them interchangeable.

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Caput mortuum. The material left behind by distillation or sublimation.

Caseus præparatus. A dairy residue identified by consistency and where it settles.

Excrementa. Superfluities described through expulsion by Nature.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 16; facsimile PDF page 344 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Chymus ; compare Caput mortuum, Caseus præparatus, Excrementa

See also. Caput mortuum; Caseus præparatus; Excrementa

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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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