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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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Kaprili

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Kaprili

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. An alternative name for sulphur.

In the book. Kibrith has the same short definition.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 28; facsimile PDF page 356.

Historical Definition

Kaprili is sulphur.

Meaning

The equivalence supplies the first meaning to test when the word occurs. It does not specify a preparation or establish whether an author means ordinary sulphur or a sulphurous constituent of a particular body.

Use in the Book

Kibrith has the same short definition. Sulphur rerum and Oleitas rerum show the broader use of sulphur-language in descriptions of things and their powers. Those qualified expressions should be consulted when the surrounding argument concerns a principle rather than a named material.

Places to Read

Kibrith. A second short name for sulphur.

Oleitas rerum. Oiliness of things interpreted through their sulphur.

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

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 28; facsimile PDF page 356 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymical Dictionary 1650, 1650 dictionary, facsimile PDF page 356, Kaprili

See also. Kibrith; Oleitas rerum; Sulphur rerum

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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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