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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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Almizadir

Metals minerals and metallic preparations · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A historical name directing the reader to verdigris.

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

Historical Definition

Almizadir is verdigris.

Meaning

This is a compact name equivalence. Its main service is recognition: a passage using Almizadir can be compared with other verdigris vocabulary in the dictionary. Calx Veneris and Ziniar supply useful routes into that family. The equivalence does not by itself describe how the material was made or establish that all historical preparations called verdigris were identical. Any such distinction belongs to the cited recipe or account.

Places to Read

Calx Veneris. A Venus-qualified calx identified as verdigris.

Ziniar. A historical verdigris synonym.

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

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Almizadir ; compare Calx Veneris, Ziniar

See also. Calx Veneris; Ziniar

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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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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.