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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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Sibar

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A historical name for quicksilver.

In the book. Compare Zaidar and Volans, also referred to quicksilver or mercury.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 42; facsimile PDF page 370.

Historical Definition

Sibar is quicksilver.

Meaning

The supplied equivalent is the material quicksilver. The definition does not add the wider philosophical senses found under various mercury names elsewhere.

Use in the Book

Compare Zaidar and Volans, also referred to quicksilver or mercury. Each historical form remains searchable, while the brief local gloss governs its interpretation here.

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Volans. Two names directly equated with quicksilver.

Zaidar. A direct mercury synonym.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 42; facsimile PDF page 370 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Sibar; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 370; compare Volans, Zaidar

See also. Volans; Zaidar

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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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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.