A CHYMICALL DICTIONARY — Entries
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Sedziwój, Michal, Paracelsus, and French, John
cetum Philosophorum is a Mercuriall water, or otherwise is called Virgins milke, wherein they say Metalls are dissolved.
Acetum radicale is Vineger distilled out of its owne roote, and matrix, and is called the Dissolving Water.
Adamita is a certain kind of Tartar.
Adech is our interiour, and invisible man, which represents the formes of all things in our mind, which afterward our outward man doth frame, and imitate with its own hands; both of them work according to their nature.
Aerdadi are corporeall spirits living in the air.
Æs doth not alwaies signifie Copper, but sometimes Gold, or Silver, or any other Metall that is pure, and generated by it self, without the mixtion of any other Metall, or Stone; out of some such kind of Metall, they formerly made and coined money.
Æstphara is the burning of flesh, or the substance of the body into ashes.
Æthna is called Subterranean fire, invisible, and sulphureous, which burnes stones into coales, like Jeat in the mountains, which are full of Resine, and Bitumen.
Æthnici are called fiery spirits, or spirituall men burning in the fire, which appear in divers forms, and shapes, as fiery flames, firebrands, round balls of coals, and that especially in Sulphur mountains.
Alandahal, or Alhandal is Coloquintida.
Alcaest, or Altaest, is said to be prepared Mercury, some will have it to bee Tartar, but the mind of the Authour is more easily understood by the description of the preparation of it.
Alcali is called all manner of Salt, which is extracted out of ashes, or calx of any matter by boiling in lie.
Alchymia is the separation of that which is impure from a purer substance.
Alcofol, or (as some will have it Alcosol) is stibium, or Antimony.
Alcol, Alcool, or Alcohol is a most subtil powder of any thing.
Alcool vini is the spirit of Wine rectified.
Alcubrith, or Alcur, or Alazar is the same that Sulphur is.
Alembrot purified is salt of Tartar, and the Magistery of it.
Alembroth is salt of Mercury, or salt of Philosophers.
Almizadir is Verdegrease.
Altey plumbi is the sweet matter of Lead.
Alusar is Manna.
Amalgama is the making of Gold, Silver, or any other Metall into a past with Quicksilver.
Amianthus is a stone like to Alumen plumosum in nature, and condition; it is not burnt in the fire, wherefore it is also called the Salamander.
Amidum, or Amilum is the whitest flowre made into bread in the Sun.
Amnis alcalisatus is water passing through the chalk of the earth, out of which Alcali is taken.
Amygdale, with Chirurgions is called the superfluous flesh which growes at the roote of the tongue.
Anachmus is an incorporeall spirit.
Anathron, or Anachthron is a kind of Salt growing upon rocks like white, and stony mosse, some call it salt nitre. The ancients falsly thought it to bee the gall of glasse, seeing it is rather the gall of stones.
Anatomia Essata is the mother of diseases.
Anatrum is glasse melted into divers colours, which they call smaltum, or terra Sarasenica.
Andena is Steel brought from the orientall countries, which melts in the fire like other Metall, and is cast into severall forms.
Anthos in Vegetables signifies Rosemary flowers, and in Metalls it signifies the Elixir or quintessence of Gold.
Anticar is Borax.
Anatris, or Antaris is Mercury.
Aniada are the fruits, and vertues of paradise, and heaven, also the sacraments of Christians, in naturall Philosophy it signifies the Astrall vertues, and celestiall, as they conduce by their influence unto long life.
Aniaday signifies an eternall spring, a new world to come, or paradise.
Aniadum is a celestiall body planted in us Christians by the Holy-ghost, by the holy sacraments, or it is the spirituall man regenerated in us.
Aniadus is the efficacy of things.
Anima is our Mercury.