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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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Congluten

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At a Glance

The word. Viscous matter described as the product of putrefaction.

In the book. Gluten names viscous matter within the body and connects it with disease.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 17; facsimile PDF page 345.

Historical Definition

Congluten is matter that has been turned viscous by putrefaction.

Meaning

The entry describes both a state and its reported origin. The matter is viscous, and putrefaction is said to have brought it into that condition. It does not name a particular bodily fluid, mineral or plant product. Context is needed to determine what subject the word describes.

Use in the Book

Gluten names viscous matter within the body and connects it with disease. Gluta concerns the efficacy of tenacious pitch, while Tenacitas glutinis names mineral resin. Together they show a vocabulary organised around adhesion and thickness, without proving that these materials have one common composition.

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Gluta. The power attributed to strongly adhering pitch.

Gluten. Bodily viscous matter given a role in persistent disease.

Tenacitas glutinis. A mineral resin identified through a glue-like name.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 17; facsimile PDF page 345 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary 1650, s.v. Congluten

See also. Gluta; Gluten; Tenacitas glutinis

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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.

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Complete 706 definition paragraphs with new introduction, commentary, reading guides and indexes; Diotimos Editions, 2026.

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