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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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Glutinis tenacitas

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A phrase directly identified as mineral resin.

In the book. Tenacitas glutinis gives the reverse word order and the same mineral-resin identification.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 24; facsimile PDF page 352.

Historical Definition

Glutinis tenacitas is mineral resin.

Meaning

The gloss supplies a material identification without specifying a mineral source or method of preparation. The phrase’s reference to tenacity should not obscure the simple identification given after it.

Use in the Book

Tenacitas glutinis gives the reverse word order and the same mineral-resin identification. Gluta and Gluten concern different subjects, respectively the efficacy of pitch and viscous bodily matter. Keeping the paired resin entries linked while preserving the other distinctions makes the dictionary’s adhesion vocabulary easier to navigate.

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Gluta. The power attributed to strongly adhering pitch.

Gluten. Bodily viscous matter given a role in persistent disease.

Tenacitas glutinis. A mineral resin identified through a glue-like name.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 24; facsimile PDF page 352 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary 1650, s.v. Glutinis tenacitas

See also. Gluta; Gluten; Tenacitas glutinis

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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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