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Adamita

An otherwise unspecified variety of tartar.

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A Chymical Dictionary

Gerhard Dorn and John French · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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  • The wordAn otherwise unspecified variety of tartar.
  • A place to readThe historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 1; facsimile PDF page 329.

Historical definition

Adamita is a certain kind of tartar.

Meaning

The historical author provides a class rather than a distinguishing description. Adamita should therefore be read as a subordinate tartar term. The entry does not tell us its appearance, source or preparation, so a more exact identification would require another cited passage. Its useful contribution is to direct the reader into the dictionary’s broader tartar vocabulary rather than toward a unique modern substance.

Places to read

  1. AdamitaRead the complete historical definition and its commentary.
  2. TartarumA wine-vessel deposit whose name also serves for bodily stones or gravel.

Source note

Historical source. 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 1; facsimile PDF page 329 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Adamita ; compare Tartarum