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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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Cinificatum

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At a Glance

The word. A material reduced to ash by burning.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 14; facsimile PDF page 342.

Historical Definition

Cinificatum is the same as Calcinatum: that is, burnt to ashes.

Meaning

The entry supplies an operation and endpoint. It can therefore identify the condition of a material rather than one substance with a fixed composition. What has been burnt remains important to understanding the resulting ash.

The broad equation with Calcinatum should be read alongside the qualified Calcinatum majus and minus entries, which organize their subjects through sweetness and art. Qualifiers can substantially alter the explanation. Calx lignorum provides a straightforward material example, wood ash, while Æstphara specifies the burning of bodily substance.

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Calx lignorum. A direct identification of a calx as ash from wood.

Æstphara. The reduction of flesh or bodily substance to ash by burning.

Calcinatum majus. An art-produced sweetness contrasted with natural sweetness.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 14; facsimile PDF page 342 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Cinificatum ; compare Calx lignorum, Æstphara, Calcinatum majus, Calcinatum minus

See also. Calx lignorum; Æstphara; Calcinatum majus; Calcinatum minus

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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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