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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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Orexis

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Orexis

Body disease and historical medicine · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A heat attributed to tartarous matter.

In the book. Tartarum provides the fuller vocabulary of hard deposits in wine vessels and stones or gravel in human bodies.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 36; facsimile PDF page 364.

Historical Definition

Orexis is a heat caused by tartarous matter.

Meaning

The sentence supplies a cause as well as a condition. The material described as tartarous is said to produce heat. The term should not be identified from a familiar meaning in another language while disregarding this local gloss.

Use in the Book

Tartarum provides the fuller vocabulary of hard deposits in wine vessels and stones or gravel in human bodies. That connection helps explain the adjective while leaving the present definition’s account of heat visible.

Places to Read

Tartarum. A wine-vessel deposit whose name also serves for bodily stones or gravel.

Qualitas. The balance of hot, cold, dry and moist qualities.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 36; facsimile PDF page 364 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Orexis; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 364; compare Tartarum, Qualitas

See also. Tartarum; Qualitas

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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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