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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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Nymphidica

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Nymphidica

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At a Glance

The word. A stated metaphor applying water-spirit names within spagyric practice.

In the book. Nymphæ supplies the neighbouring account of corporeal spirits dwelling in waters.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 35; facsimile PDF page 363.

Historical Definition

Nymphidica are, metaphorically, spirits of dissolving waters in the spagyric art.

Meaning

The word metaphorically is the definition’s own instruction to the reader. It marks a use of spiritual naming within the art of dissolving waters, rather than requiring the passage to describe the watery persons of the preceding Nymphæ entry in an unqualified way.

Use in the Book

Nymphæ supplies the neighbouring account of corporeal spirits dwelling in waters. Menstruum names a liquid in which a subject is dissolved or digested. Together they help distinguish the source of a figure from the material or operative setting in which the figure is used.

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Nymphæ. Embodied spirits or spiritual persons associated with water.

Menstruum. The liquid medium of dissolution or digestion.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 35; facsimile PDF page 363 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymical Dictionary 1650, 1650 dictionary, facsimile PDF page 363, Nymphidica

See also. Nymphæ; Menstruum

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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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