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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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Zaidar

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A Chymical Dictionary

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Zaidar

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A direct mercury synonym.

In the book. Sibar and Volans are referred to quicksilver.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 48; facsimile PDF page 376.

Historical Definition

Zaidar is mercury.

Meaning

The first letter is supplied by a decorative initial in the historical printing. Restoring that initial gives the complete searchable headword Zaidar.

Use in the Book

Sibar and Volans are referred to quicksilver. The present short gloss supplies no special preparation or philosophical qualification, so fuller senses should come from the passage being read.

Places to Read

Sibar. A historical name for quicksilver.

Volans. Two names directly equated with quicksilver.

Zelotum. Mercury qualified by a stony condition.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 48; facsimile PDF page 376 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Zaidar; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 376; compare Sibar, Volans, Zelotum

See also. Sibar; Volans; Zelotum

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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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