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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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Chybur

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At a Glance

The word. Two names identified with sulphur.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 15; facsimile PDF page 343.

Historical Definition

Chybur, or Cibur, is sulphur.

Meaning

The entry explicitly authorizes the variant Cibur. Its main purpose is to make an unfamiliar spelling recognizable, not to specify a prepared form. Other sulphur entries in the dictionary add qualifications concerning things or particular treatments, so the reader should preserve any modifier in the source passage.

Alcubrith and Kibrith provide further routes into the name family. The links aid lookup across spellings without proving that every historical sulphur preparation was materially identical.

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Alcubrith. Three alternative names for sulphur.

Kibrith. A second short name for sulphur.

Sulphur rerum. The sulphur of things used as a name for their quintessence.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 15; facsimile PDF page 343 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Chybur ; compare Alcubrith, Kibrith, Sulphur rerum, Sulphur vitriolatum

See also. Alcubrith; Kibrith; Sulphur rerum; Sulphur vitriolatum

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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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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.