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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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Confirmamentum

Spirits celestial influences and signs · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A body described through an internal or human astral relation.

In the book. Imaginatio is also described as a star in a person.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 17; facsimile PDF page 345.

Historical Definition

Confirmamentum is the body of a star in a human being, or an astral body.

Meaning

The definition gives two expressions for its subject: the body of a star in a person and an astral body. It places the term within the book’s account of celestial powers operating in human life. It does not identify an anatomical organ or describe a star physically lodged in the ordinary sense within the body.

The relation to a person is explicit. Compare a passage’s language of bodies, powers and stars before deciding whether it is speaking of the visible heavens, a human counterpart, or the efficacy attributed to either.

Use in the Book

Imaginatio is also described as a star in a person. Corpora cœlestia Spagyrorum calls astral virtues present in their matter “celestial bodies,” while Constellatio concerns the impression of higher stars upon lower bodies. The vocabulary consequently moves between body and virtue rather than observing the boundaries of a modern anatomical list.

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Constellatio. The influence of higher stars understood as an impression in lower things.

Corpora cœlestia Spagyrorum. Celestial bodies of the spagyrists understood as astral virtues in matter.

Imaginatio. Imagination described through human, celestial and supercelestial relations.

In This Edition

“Astral” is retained as the historical term. The entry offers no basis for replacing it with a psychological faculty or a contemporary model of bodily energy.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 17; facsimile PDF page 345 — Facsimile

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

See also. Constellatio; Corpora cœlestia Spagyrorum; Imaginatio

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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.

About This Edition

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.