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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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At a Glance

The word. Rebis in this dictionary denotes bodily excrement.

In the book. The adjacent Rebus means the last matter of things.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 40; facsimile PDF page 368.

Historical Definition

Rebis is the excrement of the belly.

Meaning

The entire definition is a bodily identification. The spelling can attract interpretations drawn from other alchemical works, but this witness supplies a precise local gloss: excrement of the belly.

Use in the Book

The adjacent Rebus means the last matter of things. Keeping the two headwords and definitions separate is essential; their resemblance on the page is not sufficient evidence that the compiler intended one sense.

Places to Read

Rebus. The final matter or resulting condition of things.

Vndosa. A collective animal-excrement name.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 40; facsimile PDF page 368 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Rebis; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 368; compare Rebus, Vndosa

See also. Rebus; Vndosa

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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.