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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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Aroph

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A Chymical Dictionary

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Aroph

Plants animals and natural materials · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A historical name identifying mandrake.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 7; facsimile PDF page 335.

Historical Definition

Aroph is mandrake.

Meaning

The entry gives a plant identification without specifying the part employed or a preparation. It should therefore function as a route to the named plant, not as an unstated account of its powers. A passage may concern a root, a prepared product or another feature, but the dictionary has not decided among those possibilities. Preserving Aroph as a searchable name makes the original vocabulary usable while avoiding the addition of unsupported medicinal or legendary claims.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 7; facsimile PDF page 335 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Aroph

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About This Reading Edition

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.

About This Edition

Complete 706 definition paragraphs with new introduction, commentary, reading guides and indexes; Diotimos Editions, 2026.

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The historical 1650 English text is in the public domain. New introduction, commentary, reading guides and indexes are © 2026 Diotimos Editions and published with the site owner’s authorization.