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Gerhard Dorn and John French

A Chymical Dictionary

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Calx peregrinorum

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Calx peregrinorum

Salts solvents and liquid preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A calx expression identified with tartar.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 13; facsimile PDF page 341.

Historical Definition

Calx peregrinorum is tartar.

Meaning

This short identification is valuable because it resists a uniform translation of Calx as ordinary lime or ash. Within this compound, the dictionary expressly gives tartar. The complete historical name should therefore be retained in the index, with a route into Tartarum for the larger family.

The entry does not describe the tartar’s source or treatment. Where a recipe adds those details, they belong to that particular use. A bare equivalence should not be expanded into an invented preparation.

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

Adamita. An otherwise unspecified variety of tartar.

Alembrot. A purified preparation identified with salt of tartar and its magistery.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 13; facsimile PDF page 341 — Facsimile

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

See also. Tartarum; Adamita; Alembrot

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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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