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A Chymical Dictionary
Gerhard Dorn and John French · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordThe limit or duration of life.
- In the bookThe Iliaster family also uses term of life and balm-of-life language.
- A place to readThe historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 38; facsimile PDF page 366.
Historical definition
Periodus is the term of life.
Meaning
Term can mean the appointed extent or limit of a period. The definition concerns life’s temporal span, rather than identifying a medicine or a celestial body.
Use in the book
The Iliaster family also uses term of life and balm-of-life language. Those fuller entries show how duration can be related to different accounts of life and its sustenance. The present short equivalence supplies no number of years.
Places to read
- PeriodusRead the complete historical definition and its commentary.
- Iliaster primusThe first human Iliaster described through life and its balsam.
- Iliaster secundusThe second human Iliaster associated with elemental life.
- Iliaster tertiusThe third human Iliaster associated with life through quintessence.
Source note
Historical source. 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 38; facsimile PDF page 366 — Facsimile