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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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Muria

Salts solvents and liquid preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A direct name for brine.

In the book. Malek is an unqualified name for salt, while Liquor salis is assigned a preservative function.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 34; facsimile PDF page 362.

Historical Definition

Muria is brine.

Meaning

The equivalent gives a saline liquid without specifying the salt, its strength or a further operation. Those particulars must come from the surrounding passage if they matter to the work being described.

Use in the Book

Malek is an unqualified name for salt, while Liquor salis is assigned a preservative function. Muria supplies the familiar liquid equivalent rather than that functional account of Nature’s balm.

Places to Read

Malek. An alternative name for salt.

Liquor salis. A saline liquor understood through its preservative action.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 34; facsimile PDF page 362 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymical Dictionary 1650, 1650 dictionary, facsimile PDF page 362, Muria

See also. Malek; Liquor salis

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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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