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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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Adamita

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At a Glance

The word. An otherwise unspecified variety of tartar.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 1; facsimile PDF page 329.

Historical Definition

Adamita is a certain kind of tartar.

Meaning

The historical author provides a class rather than a distinguishing description. Adamita should therefore be read as a subordinate tartar term. The entry does not tell us its appearance, source or preparation, so a more exact identification would require another cited passage. Its useful contribution is to direct the reader into the dictionary’s broader tartar vocabulary rather than toward a unique modern substance.

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Tartarum. A wine-vessel deposit whose name also serves for bodily stones or gravel.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 1; facsimile PDF page 329 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Adamita ; compare Tartarum

See also. Tartarum

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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.