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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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A Chymical Dictionary

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Artetiscus

Body disease and historical medicine · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A descriptive term for a person missing a body part.

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

Historical Definition

Artetiscus is a person who lacks a bodily member.

Meaning

This entry names a person through a bodily condition. It does not identify the absent member or say whether the condition was present from birth or followed an injury. The wording should be explained without supplying a causal history that the source has not given.

Its presence also reminds the reader that the dictionary covers more than substances and operations. Human conditions, professions and evaluative names occur beside material terms. Recognizing the grammatical role of a headword can resolve a difficult sentence before any further technical identification is needed.

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

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

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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.