Paracelsiann.1adj.
/ˌparəˈsɛlsɪən/, U.S. /ˌpɛrəˈsɛlsiən/ History of Science.
A. n.1
A follower or adherent of Paracelsus, or of his medical or philosophical principles.Paracelsus was an outspokenly iconoclastic figure who rejected orthodox Galenic humoral theory in favour of a system in which metals and minerals were the principle agents in both the development and the treatment of disease (supplemented in the latter case by herbal folk remedies). Although his work was largely mystical and alchemical in nature, his decisive break with the medical establishment of the time and his perceived reliance on practical experience, observation, and chemical preparations have sometimes led to his being considered the forefather of modern medicine.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > of specific schools or theoretical standpoints > Paracelsic or chemiatric
Paracelsian1574
Paracelsist1574
chemist1585
chemic1617
mineralist1629
chymiater1694
chemiatric1839
1574 J. Jones (title) Galens bookes of elementes..confuting..the errours..of the Paracelcians.
1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night sig. Eij He is a mettle-bruing Paracelsian, hauing not past one or two Probatums for al diseases.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 108 Our Doctor is pertinaciously either a Galenist, or Paracelsian.
1711 W. King tr. G. Naudé Polit. Considerations Refin'd Politicks i. 15 The Paracelsians pervert the text of Hippocrates, to establish their visionary imaginations.
1785 F. Pilon Barataria ii. 33 Why you damn'd confounded paracelsian.
1870 Nature 8 Sept. 371/1 He was not a violent Paracelsian.
1962 J. R. Partington Hist. Chem. III. i. 1 The lawyer Pierre Le Loyer..of Angers reported in 1586 that he saw a Paracelsan in Paris who was refuted in Parliament and prohibited.
1993 Isis 84 212 Libavius despised the Paracelsians and envied the patronage they had gained at the courts of the nobility.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of Paracelsus, or of his teachings or followers.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [adjective] > medieval
Paracelsical1585
Paracelsian1596
Paracelsic1653
Paracelsistic1704
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden Ep. Ded. sig. C2 Vtterly thou bewrayest thy non-proficiencie in the Doctors Paracelsian rope-rethorique.
1617 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Faire Quarrell ii. sig. D4 Can all your Paracelsian mixtures cure it.
1659 in T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 453 It is a paracelsian remedy, that may kill as well as cure.
1769 E. Buys New & Compl. Dict. Terms Art II Sin’nia, (among Paracelsian Chymists) the white Glew of the Joints.
1847 C. Whitlaw Opinions & New Discov. in Agric. 73 Like the waves of the ocean, each and every theory, in its turn, whether true or false, has been dashed and dispearsed by the same Paracelsian rock.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 146/1 Becher..named the principle acidum primogenium, and held that it was composed of the Paracelsian elements ‘earth’ and ‘water’.
1962 J. R. Partington Hist. Chem. III. i. 1 Paracelsan medicine and chemistry were made known in France by Roch le Baillif, Sieur de la Rivière.
1966 Isis 57 253 The three elements..of the alchemical and Paracelsian tradition.
2000 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 33 135 (note) Boyle was sceptical of Paracelsian and Helmontian talk of a ‘universal medicine’.
Derivatives
Paraˈcelsianism n. rare before 20th cent. the medical principles of Paracelsus.
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the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > medical theories or doctrines > [noun] > Paracelsianism or iatromechanics
chemistry1645
Paracelsianism1668
iatrochemistry1830
iatromathematics1830
iatromechanism1885
iatromechanics1886
iatrophysics1886
1668 H. More Divine Dialogues: Two Last Dial. v. 349 In which we all-over discover the foot-steps of Paracelsianism and Familism.
1865 Macmillan's Mag. May 80/1 Alas! all this Paracelsianism had to be brought to a harder test than that of exposition in lectures to a lay audience.
1945 Isis 36 19/1 In some essays in Lychnos the same author [sc. Sten Lindroth] has touched on certain problems bound up with Paracelsianism.
2002 J. Shackelford in G. S. Williams & C. D. Gunnoe Paracelsian Moments 37 Paracelsianism was brought to Denmark in the 1570s and became fairly well established by 1600.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
paracelsiann.2
/ˌparəˈsɛlsɪən/, U.S. /ˌpɛrəˈsɛlsiən/ Mineralogy.
A colourless or pale yellow mineral of the monoclinic system which is a barium-containing feldspar dimorphous with celsian (into which it is changed on heating).
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1907 Mineral. Mag. 14 406 Paracelsian... It is near to celsian..in composition and optical characters, but..possessing only poor cleavage.
1974 Amer. Mineralogist 59 79/1 This study was undertaken to determine more precisely the bond lengths and angles of danburite..for comparison with topologically similar paracelsian (BaAl2Si2O8) and hurlbutite.
1995 Mineral. Mag. 59 170 Twinned celsian and paracelsian from the Bennallt mine, on the Llyn Peninsula.
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