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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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Innaturalia

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Innaturalia

Elements principles and the natural world · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. Bodies placed beyond the ordinary natural order.

In the book. Incubus and Nymphæ have fuller definitions specifying actions or places.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 28; facsimile PDF page 356.

Historical Definition

Innaturalia are supernatural bodies.

Meaning

This very short definition combines two terms which should both remain visible: the things are bodies, and their status is supernatural. It does not say that they are simply imaginary, nor identify them with all the spirits named elsewhere. The headword establishes a category without listing its members.

Use in the Book

Incubus and Nymphæ have fuller definitions specifying actions or places. Nothing in this entry directs the reader to treat either as an example of Innaturalia. A proposed identification needs support from the passage being interpreted, rather than from the shared difficulty of the names.

Places to Read

Incubus. A spirit described through deceptive sexual experience during sleep.

Nymphæ. Embodied spirits or spiritual persons associated with water.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 28; facsimile PDF page 356 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymical Dictionary 1650, 1650 dictionary, facsimile PDF page 356, Innaturalia

See also. Incubus; Nymphæ

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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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