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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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Vmbratiles

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A Chymical Dictionary

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Vmbratiles

Spirits celestial influences and signs · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. Bodies qualified as astral.

In the book. Compare Visio for apparitions of spirits and Spiritus Animalis for a power of the soul related to the heavens.

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

Historical Definition

Vmbratiles are astral bodies.

Meaning

The definition keeps body and an astral qualification together. It does not directly equate the term with an ordinary visible human body or with a wholly bodiless spirit.

Use in the Book

Compare Visio for apparitions of spirits and Spiritus Animalis for a power of the soul related to the heavens. These are different descriptions, despite their participation in a wider celestial vocabulary.

Places to Read

Spiritus Animalis. A power of the soul described through likeness to the heavens.

Visio. A visible apparition described as supernatural and spiritual.

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

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Vmbratiles; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 375; compare Spiritus Animalis, Visio

See also. Spiritus Animalis; Visio

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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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