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Diotimos Library · Esotericism & Spirituality Collection · English Edition

Gerhard Dorn and John French

A Chymical Dictionary

An Expanded Diotimos Lexicon of Paracelsian and Alchemical Language

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Essodinum

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Essodinum

Spirits celestial influences and signs · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. Foretelling by interpreting marks.

In the book. Erodinium names a sign of something to come, while Evestrum is a prophetic spirit associated with signs or something preceding an event.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 21; facsimile PDF page 349.

Historical Definition

Essodinum is a presage of things to come through their marks.

Meaning

Marks provide the stated means of presaging. The definition does not identify the marked subject, the event predicted or a set of rules for interpretation. Its scope is consequently broader than a particular art of reading hands, stones or weather.

Use in the Book

Erodinium names a sign of something to come, while Evestrum is a prophetic spirit associated with signs or something preceding an event. The comparison distinguishes a sign, the act or account of presaging by marks, and an attributed agency. Their connection is useful without making them interchangeable.

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Erodinium. A sign understood as pointing towards a future event.

Evestrum. A prophetic agency associated with signs preceding events.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 21; facsimile PDF page 349 — Facsimile

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

See also. Erodinium; Evestrum

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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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