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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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Perdomium

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At a Glance

The word. A wine preparation defined through herbs.

In the book. Vinum essatum is wine impregnated with the virtues of herbs or other things.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 38; facsimile PDF page 366.

Historical Definition

Perdomium is wine made from herbs.

Meaning

The gloss makes herbs the material from which the wine is made. It does not name a particular plant or provide the production process.

Use in the Book

Vinum essatum is wine impregnated with the virtues of herbs or other things. The comparison is useful because the two definitions state different relations: wine made from herbs, and wine receiving their virtues. Those formulations should remain distinguishable.

Cardonium is a medicinal wine made from herbs. It offers a further herbal-wine comparison while adding a medicinal qualification absent from the present sentence. Retaining that distinction prevents a name connection from supplying an unstated therapeutic purpose.

Places to Read

Vinum essatum. Wine carrying the powers attributed to another material.

Vegetabilia. Growing things described through rootedness and branching.

Cardonium. An herbal wine defined by its intended medicinal character.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 38; facsimile PDF page 366 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Perdomium; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 366; compare Vinum essatum, Vegetabilia, Cardonium

See also. Vinum essatum; Vegetabilia; Cardonium

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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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