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A Chymical Dictionary
Gerhard Dorn and John French · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordA conjunction involving several levels of stars and wine.
- In the bookIlech magnum relates a medicine’s hidden star to stars in the firmament and in a person.
- In this editionA textual note records the reading of the 1650 printing and the editorial treatment.
- A place to readThe historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 26; facsimile PDF page 354.
Historical definition
Ilech supernaturale is a conjunction of supernatural and firmamental stars with the lower stars of terrestrial things, and with wine. 1
Meaning
The definition brings together supernatural and firmamental stars, lower stars of terrestrial things, and wine. The conjunction is the defining relation. The entry does not explain a sequence of operations or identify how wine enters the account.
The levels of stars should remain distinct in the modernised wording. Reducing the whole phrase to ordinary astrology or to a preparation of wine would lose the several terms deliberately included by the compiler.
Use in the book
Ilech magnum relates a medicine’s hidden star to stars in the firmament and in a person. Constellatio describes impressions from higher upon lower bodies. These connections help the reader recognise a vocabulary of conjunction and correspondence, while leaving this entry’s particular inclusion of wine unexplained by the short gloss.
Places to read
- Ilech supernaturaleRead the complete historical definition and its commentary.
- ConstellatioThe influence of higher stars understood as an impression in lower things.
- Ilech magnumA medicine’s hidden star explained through a higher and lower correspondence.
In this edition
The source’s defective terrestrial spelling is regularised in the modernised definition; the original is preserved with its textual note. No unmentioned planetary correspondence or recipe is added.
Source note
1. The original prints terrrestial. The modernisation reads terrestrial.
Historical source. 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 26; facsimile PDF page 354 — Facsimile
Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary 1650, s.v. Ilech supernaturale