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Definitions
an obsolete kind of container used for distillation; two retorts connected by a tube
Word origin
From French alambic, from Medieval Latin alembīcus, from Arabic الإِنْبِيق (al-ʔinbīq), from Ancient Greek ἄμβιξ (ámbix, “cup, cap of a still”). Doublet of ambix and lambic.
Used in a sentence
“Ideal beauty is not the mind’s creation: it is real beauty, refined and purified in the mind’s alembic, from the alloy which always more or less accompanies it in our mixed and imperfect nature.”
“Thus is Art, a nature passed through the alembic of man.”
“We of all magical precipitates out of Europe’s groaning, clouded alembic, we are the thinnest, the most dangerous, the handiest to secular uses —”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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