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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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Cycima

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Cycima

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A dictionary name for litharge.

In the book. Lethargyrium gives a broader historical account of a spume separated in purifying Mercury, silver or lead.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 18; facsimile PDF page 346.

Historical Definition

Cycima is litharge.

Meaning

The entry is a direct identification without a preparative qualification. It does not distinguish the named material by colour, metal source or medical action. Those details cannot be supplied from this headword alone.

Use in the Book

Lethargyrium gives a broader historical account of a spume separated in purifying Mercury, silver or lead. Terra auri and Terra argenti respectively name litharge of gold and silver. The comparisons show why a later passage’s modifiers matter, without changing the brevity of the gloss Cycima.

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Lethargyrium. A separated scum from the purification of three named metallic materials.

Terra argenti. A silver-associated litharge under an earth name.

Terra auri. A gold-associated litharge under an earth name.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 18; facsimile PDF page 346 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary 1650, s.v. Cycima

See also. Lethargyrium; Terra argenti; Terra auri

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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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