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A Chymical Dictionary
Gerhard Dorn and John French · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordA power characterized by restraint or driving back.
- In the bookRepercussiva names medicines that drive back a flow.
- 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 43; facsimile PDF page 371.
Historical definition
Staraphaxat is a restraining or repercussive virtue. 1
Meaning
The definition describes an action rather than naming its material bearer. Restraining checks something; repercussive connects the power with the driving-back action described under Repercussiva.
Use in the book
Repercussiva names medicines that drive back a flow. That entry helps explain the action word, though the present sentence does not identify one medicine or specify a particular flow.
Places to read
- StaraphaxatRead the complete historical definition and its commentary.
- RepercussivaMedicines classified by their supposed action of driving a flow back.
In this edition
The 1650 printing reads resinging; the transcription aid conjectures restringing. The modernised definition adopts restraining as an interpretation of that conjecture. This is a disclosed editorial reading, not the word printed in 1650.
Source note
1. The original prints resinging. The transcription aid conjectures restringing; the modernisation’s restraining interprets that conjecture. Repercussive, the accompanying word, is retained.
Historical source. 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 43; facsimile PDF page 371 — Facsimile
Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Staraphaxat; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 371; compare Repercussiva