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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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Syphita stricta

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Syphita stricta

Spirits celestial influences and signs · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A spirit associated with sleepwalking.

In the book. Syphita prava has a different disease-name gloss, while Somnia concerns stellar operations during sleep.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 44; facsimile PDF page 372.

Historical Definition

Syphita stricta is a fantastic spirit of those who walk in their sleep.

Meaning

The definition gives a kind of spirit and associates it with sleepers who walk. Fantastic belongs to the historical explanation of appearances and imagination; it is not a clinical classification.

Use in the Book

Syphita prava has a different disease-name gloss, while Somnia concerns stellar operations during sleep. These comparisons preserve the dictionary’s several ways of explaining nocturnal and bodily phenomena.

Places to Read

Somnia. Dreams explained through stellar operations in the sleeper.

Succubus. A night spirit associated with a deceptive sexual encounter.

Syphita prava. A historical disease name equated with St Vitus’s dance.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 44; facsimile PDF page 372 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Syphita stricta; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 372; compare Somnia, Succubus, Syphita prava

See also. Somnia; Succubus; Syphita prava

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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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