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Gerhard Dorn and John French

A Chymical Dictionary

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Vrina vini

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Vrina vini

Salts solvents and liquid preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A wine-qualified name with vinegar and bodily senses.

In the book. Xisinum is directly equated with vinegar, while Vinum correctum is referred to alcohol of wine.

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

Historical Definition

Vrina vini is vinegar; sometimes it is used for the urine of a person who always drinks wine.

Meaning

The definition supplies two possibilities and marks the second with sometimes. In one use the compound name means vinegar; in another it refers to urine from a habitual wine drinker. These senses should not be merged into one material preparation.

Use in the Book

Xisinum is directly equated with vinegar, while Vinum correctum is referred to alcohol of wine. The wider wine vocabulary therefore includes an ordinary acidic liquid, a prepared spirit and a bodily relation. The complete expression and surrounding passage establish the relevant sense.

Places to Read

Vinum correctum. A wine preparation referred to alcohol of wine.

Xisinum. An unqualified vinegar name.

In This Edition

The initial V is preserved in the historical heading, with Urina vini as an editorial search form. Both the primary equivalence and the qualified alternative remain in the modernised definition.

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

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Vrina vini; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 375; compare Vinum correctum, Xisinum

See also. Vinum correctum; Xisinum

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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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