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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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Liquidum de resoluto

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Liquidum de resoluto

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At a Glance

The word. Liquidity belonging to a thing’s own nature.

In the book. Menstruum defines a liquid through its use in dissolution or digestion.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 30; facsimile PDF page 358.

Historical Definition

Liquidum de resoluto is that which is liquid by its own nature.

Meaning

The decisive qualification is of its own nature. The entry does not merely designate something observed in liquid form at one moment; it assigns liquidity to what the thing is. That differs from a description centred on an operator’s dissolving a previously solid body.

Use in the Book

Menstruum defines a liquid through its use in dissolution or digestion. Liquidum de resoluto instead defines a condition of the subject itself. A liquid can be discussed through either relation, but the two headings ask different questions.

Places to Read

Menstruum. The liquid medium of dissolution or digestion.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 30; facsimile PDF page 358 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymical Dictionary 1650, 1650 dictionary, facsimile PDF page 358, Liquidum de resoluto

See also. Menstruum

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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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