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alembic

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7 lettersPronunciation /əˈlɛm.bɪk/Part of speech nounSorted abceilmStarts with AEnds with C0 clues
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Definitions

  1. 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 —

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