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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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Citrinulus

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A crystal identified through a pale appearance.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 16; facsimile PDF page 344.

Historical Definition

Citrinulus is pale crystal.

Meaning

The definition gives a material class and a colour-like qualification. It supplies no locality, growth form or modern mineral species. “Pale” should remain the descriptive limit rather than being expanded into a precise hue without evidence.

The spelling distinguishes the entry from Citrinulum, the transparent salt made from calcined vitriol, and Citrinula, the blistering herb. The three names are worth linking precisely because their meanings diverge. A finding aid should help the reader choose the correct word rather than combine them into a single family of substances.

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Citrinulum. A vitriol-derived salt identified through transparency and preparation.

Citrinula. A plant name with an attributed blister-producing effect.

Cherionium. A naturally fixed condition illustrated through crystal.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 16; facsimile PDF page 344 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Citrinulus ; compare Citrinulum, Citrinula, Cherionium

See also. Citrinulum; Citrinula; Cherionium

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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.