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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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Alcubrith

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Alcubrith

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At a Glance

The word. Three alternative names for sulphur.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 3; facsimile PDF page 331.

Historical Definition

Alcubrith, Alcur, or Alazar is the same as sulphur.

Meaning

The usefulness of this entry is in recognizing one referent beneath different spellings. It does not say which prepared form of sulphur a particular recipe intends. Preserve the full phrase when the term is qualified, since the dictionary elsewhere distinguishes named sulphur preparations and the sulphur of things. Those related entries may concern an altered material or a philosophical account rather than an interchangeable stock ingredient.

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Chybur. Two names identified with sulphur.

Kibrith. A second short name for sulphur.

Sulphur rerum. The sulphur of things used as a name for their quintessence.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 3; facsimile PDF page 331 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Alcubrith ; compare Chybur, Kibrith, Sulphur rerum, Sulphur vitriolatum

See also. Chybur; Kibrith; Sulphur rerum; Sulphur vitriolatum

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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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