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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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Ilech supernaturale

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Ilech supernaturale

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At a Glance

The word. A conjunction involving several levels of stars and wine.

In the book. Ilech magnum relates a medicine’s hidden star to stars in the firmament and in a person.

In this edition. A textual note records the reading of the 1650 printing and the editorial treatment.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 26; facsimile PDF page 354.

Historical Definition

Ilech supernaturale is a conjunction of supernatural and firmamental stars with the lower stars of terrestrial things, and with wine.

Meaning

The definition brings together supernatural and firmamental stars, lower stars of terrestrial things, and wine. The conjunction is the defining relation. The entry does not explain a sequence of operations or identify how wine enters the account.

The levels of stars should remain distinct in the modernised wording. Reducing the whole phrase to ordinary astrology or to a preparation of wine would lose the several terms deliberately included by the compiler.

Use in the Book

Ilech magnum relates a medicine’s hidden star to stars in the firmament and in a person. Constellatio describes impressions from higher upon lower bodies. These connections help the reader recognise a vocabulary of conjunction and correspondence, while leaving this entry’s particular inclusion of wine unexplained by the short gloss.

Places to Read

Constellatio. The influence of higher stars understood as an impression in lower things.

Ilech magnum. A medicine’s hidden star explained through a higher and lower correspondence.

In This Edition

The source’s defective terrestrial spelling is regularised in the modernised definition; the original is preserved with its textual note. No unmentioned planetary correspondence or recipe is added.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 26; facsimile PDF page 354 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary 1650, s.v. Ilech supernaturale

See also. Constellatio; Ilech magnum

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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.