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A Chymical Dictionary
Gerhard Dorn and John French · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordA purified preparation identified with salt of tartar and its magistery.
- A place to readThe historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 3; facsimile PDF page 331.
Historical definition
Alembrot purified is salt of tartar and its magistery.
Meaning
The qualifier is essential. This is not simply a repeat of Alembroth, which the dictionary identifies with salt of Mercury or salt of the philosophers. Here, purification is tied specifically to tartar and its magistery. The entry gives an identification but no procedure sufficient to reconstruct the product. A reader should therefore keep the prepared form distinct until the surrounding passage supplies its relation to the unqualified name.
Places to read
- AlembrotRead the complete historical definition and its commentary.
- AlembrothA salt named through Mercury or the philosophers.
- TartarumA wine-vessel deposit whose name also serves for bodily stones or gravel.
- MagisteriumAn extracted secret defined by a qualified kind of separation.
Source note
Historical source. 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 3; facsimile PDF page 331 — Facsimile
Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Alembrot ; compare Alembroth, Tartarum, Magisterium