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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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Vmbragines

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Vmbragines

Spirits celestial influences and signs · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. Another name referred to pygmies.

In the book. Sylphes is given the same short equivalent.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 47; facsimile PDF page 375.

Historical Definition

Vmbragines are pygmies.

Meaning

The entry supplies a direct equivalence with a creature-name used elsewhere in the dictionary. It does not add a dwelling or elemental affiliation.

Use in the Book

Sylphes is given the same short equivalent. Both headwords remain searchable; the shared gloss establishes the connection without supplying a fuller taxonomy of these beings.

Places to Read

Sylphes. A spirit name locally equated with pygmies.

Sylvestres. Names with airy-spirit and gigantic woodland senses.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 47; facsimile PDF page 375 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Vmbragines; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 375; compare Sylphes, Sylvestres

See also. Sylphes; Sylvestres

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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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