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Gerhard Dorn and John French

A Chymical Dictionary

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Orizeum foliatum

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Orizeum foliatum

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. Gold distinguished by its leaf form.

In the book. Orizeum supplies the unqualified metal, while Orizeum præcipitatum describes a preparation involving the crocus of mercury.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 37; facsimile PDF page 365.

Historical Definition

Orizeum foliatum is gold leaf.

Meaning

The qualifier identifies a physical form. Gold leaf is the modernised order of the historical Leaf-gold; the material name remains gold.

Use in the Book

Orizeum supplies the unqualified metal, while Orizeum præcipitatum describes a preparation involving the crocus of mercury. The three entries show how a qualifier can identify form in one case and an operation in another.

Aurum planatum gives a direct parallel, identifying leaf gold or hammered gold. The connection lets readers move between two historical names for the leaf form without turning the other Orizeum preparations into leaves.

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Orizeum. A direct gold synonym.

Orizeum præcipitatum. A gold preparation described through the obscure printed form cros.

Aurum planatum. Gold identified by being beaten into a thin form.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 37; facsimile PDF page 365 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Orizeum foliatum; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 365; compare Orizeum, Orizeum præcipitatum, Aurum planatum

See also. Orizeum; Orizeum præcipitatum; Aurum planatum

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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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