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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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Impressiones

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Impressiones

Spirits celestial influences and signs · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. Effects in lower subjects described as fruits of stars.

In the book. Constellatio concerns the impression of higher stars or their virtues upon lower bodies.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 27; facsimile PDF page 355.

Historical Definition

Impressiones are the fruits, as it were, of stars in lower things.

Meaning

The image of fruits presents what proceeds or results from stars in lower things. The qualifying “as” keeps the explanatory comparison visible. The entry does not name a particular star, subject or physical sign.

Use in the Book

Constellatio concerns the impression of higher stars or their virtues upon lower bodies. Formæ rerum gives influences received from celestial bodies or the virtues of things. These entries connect the relation of influence with its supposed products. Impressiones is particularly useful for recognising that a passage may be discussing results rather than the celestial agent itself.

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

Formæ rerum. Forms explained through received celestial influences or active virtues.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 27; facsimile PDF page 355 — Facsimile

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

See also. Constellatio; Formæ rerum

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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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