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Gerhard Dorn and John French

A Chymical Dictionary

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Aqua lubricata

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Aqua lubricata

Salts solvents and liquid preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A liquid characterized by mucilaginous materials.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 5; facsimile PDF page 333.

Historical Definition

Aqua lubricata is made from mucilaginous things, such as sugar, juleps and the like.

Meaning

The defining feature is its material character rather than a particular mineral or solvent power. Sugar and juleps serve as examples within the historical category. The entry does not describe every Aqua term as ordinary water: here the qualifying adjective draws attention to a prepared liquid associated with mucilage.

The examples should guide rather than close the category, since “and the like” leaves it open. A passage may specify another material with the relevant character. The dictionary supplies no exact viscosity or composition, so those must remain features of the individual preparation rather than of this headword in the abstract.

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Muscilago. A liquid defined through thickness or viscosity.

Liquor. A naming rule by which a qualified liquor can mean an oil.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 5; facsimile PDF page 333 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Aqua lubricata ; compare Muscilago, Liquor

See also. Muscilago; Liquor

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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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