How To Use Alembic In A Sentence
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They first invented and named the alembic for the purposes of distillation, analyzed the substances of the three kingdoms of nature, tried the distinction and affinities of alcalis and acids, and converted the poisonous minerals into soft and salutary medicines.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The condensation visible when an object is heated in an alembic was sometimes called the queen's tears.
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The ‘limbeck’ is an alembic, a piece of distilling apparatus known also to alchemists.
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The meat of them has been transmuted in the alembic of
Chapter 35
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The most highly alembicated and sophisticated work of art, arising in complex civilizations.
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This ingenious man, however metaphysical and alembicated he may be in his writings, was of great simplicity in his character and conversation.
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Gilbert White's phrase, forms the best "alembic" for distilling water from fog at all times of the year.
The Naturalist on the Thames
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He has the most confused mind, alembicated, what our ancestors called a diseur de phébus, and he makes the things that he says even more unpleasant by the manner in which he says them.
Within a Budding Grove
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He carefully fit the sieve into the throat of a flask, and turned to Gaspare, who was bent over the vessel like a chymist before his alembic.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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I wanted him to give her up and lucidly informed him why; on which he never protested nor contradicted, never was even so alembicated as to declare just for the sake of the point that he wouldn't.
Glasses
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Range of alembic distilled vodkas made entirely from Midwest grain.
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He has the most confused mind, alembicated, what our ancestors called a diseur de phébus, and he makes the things that he says even more unpleasant by the manner in which he says them.
Within a Budding Grove
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The purer love part of the matter is a little, as the French themselves say, "alembicated.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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From Jabir we gain the word alkali, the distilling apparatus known as an alembic and – says Al-Khalili – perhaps even the word gibberish.
Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim al-Khalili – review
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Because this miasmic political alembic of dissimulation, leakage and 'shocking' revelation is meant to conceal who the financial and power beneficiaries who thrive on war are - all the leaks and vapid condemnation of leaks in the world can only hope to reveal the most superficial level inconstiencies and travesties, that is, what we already know are the horrific and tragic consequence of unlimited war.
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And what is worse, too many of us have been patterned and prepared in the alembic of these limited views, however out of date they may be, and we find ourselves to have been marinated in the medieval soup of the mind.
The 'Future of God' Debate
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It is Chopin at the supreme summit of his art, an art alembicated, personal and intoxicating.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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One by one his worlds evaporated, rose beyond his vision as vapours in the hot alembic of the sun, sank for ever beneath sea-levels, themselves unreal and passing as the phantoms of a dream.
CHAPTER XXIV
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Incredible as it may seem to readers of the historian, the poeticule has actually contrived so far to transfigure by dint of disfiguring him that this most noble and pathetic scene in all the annals of chivalry, when passed through the alembic of his incompetence, appears in a garb of transforming verse under a guise at once weak and wordy, coarse and unchivalrous.
A Study of Shakespeare
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Tears, blood and bread combine to sacramentalize the penitential psyche so that the weeping heart undergoes a kind of reverse alchemy, the alembic of Eucharistic topoi dispersing the self among the dust and dew shrouded by night sky.
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Small batch vodka alembic distilled from local grain and the spring water.
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These, my first impressions, were fully confirmed by subsequent intercourse, in situations and under circumstances which, by experience, I have found an unfailing alembic for the trial of character -- a crucible wherein, if the metal be impure, the drossy substances are sure to display themselves.
What I Saw in California
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Facts transmuted in the alembic of hope into terms of faith.
Chapter 37
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- ancient distilling apparatus; purifying or transforming apparatus or act. alembicate, v. distil. alembicated, adj. rather too refined (of literary style). alethiology
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Astounding, enchanting, alembicated, and dramatic, the Chopin studies are exemplary essays in emotion and manner.
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English sixteenth centuries, and the alembicated exquisiteness of Catullus and Carew; he does not dislike Webster because he is not Dryden, or Young because he is not Spenser; he does not quarrel with Sophocles because he is not Æschylus, or with Hugo because he is not Heine.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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That this region was a sort of alembic, a melting-pot (as America is today) for various peoples of an ancient world-wide culture, as broad at least in its scope as the term Aryan is today.
Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs
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Its insignia was two alembics with spouts crossed against a benzene ring.
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It offered an alembic in which ideas could be shared, alchemized, and expanded upon.
MIND MELD: If You Could Change Any Aspect of The Science Fiction Field, What Would it Be?
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They chew hasheesh; cut themselves with poisoned creases; swing their hammock in the boughs of the Bohon Upas; taste every poison; buy every secret; at Naples, they put St. Januarius blood in an alembic; they saw a hole into the head of the winking Virgin, to know why she winks; measure with an English footrule every cell of the Inquisition, every Turkish caaba, every Holy of holies; translate and send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Bramins; and measure their own strength by the terror they cause.
VIII. English Traits. Character
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Astounding, canorous, enchanting, alembicated and dramatic, the Chopin studies are exemplary essays in emotion and manner.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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The medium-weight, alembic distilled vodka immediately washes the palate with a lavish array of raspberry flavors that rivals the real thing.
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From Jabir we gain the word alkali, the distilling apparatus known as an alembic and – says Al-Khalili – perhaps even the word gibberish.
Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim al-Khalili – review
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An alembic is an apparatus formerly used in distillation and the word comes from al-inbiq, the still.
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The prose style of Boccaccio is not a simple style—rather it is curious and alembicated.
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Here and there pieces of their quaint and uncouth shaped apparatus, the aludel, the alembic, and the alkaner, the pelican, the crucible, and the water-bath, occupy their respective stations.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832
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I wanted him to give her up and luminously informed him why; on which he never protested nor contradicted, never was even so alembicated as to declare just for the sake of the drama that he wouldn't.
Embarrassments
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The twins enjoyed confusing the Neophyte with their cryptic words and alembicated rhetoric.
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This forced, violent, alembicated style is most abhorrent to me; it can’t be helped; the note was struck years ago on the Janet Nicoll, and has to be maintained somehow; and I can only hope the intrinsic horror and pathos, and a kind of fierce glow of colour there is to it, and the surely remarkable wealth of striking incident, may guide our little shallop into port.
Vailima Letters
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Whipping our group past mash tuns and alembic condensers, the guide points us towards the main event, the tasting room.
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They invented and named the alembic al-anbiq, chemically analyzed innumerable substances, composed lapidaries, distinguished alkalis and acids, investigated their affinities, studied and manufactured hundreds of drugs.
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Irish monks also found a different use for the alembic stills that had been used to make perfume in the Middle East since the fourth century.
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In her alembicated style she says to Cecil, 'I hope for my sake you will rather draw for Walter towards the east than help him forward toward the sunset, if any respect to me or love to him be not forgotten.
Raleigh
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The word "alembic," the ancient chemical apparatus used to heat and distill, had jolted the people nearest to Steven, all the men and women on the platforms; she had felt their sudden intake of breath and the straightening of their spines, could still see it in their faces and their posture.
A Darker Place
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The peculiar inspiration of psychoanalysis was to invent a relationship which acted like a filter bed or alembic to isolate these ‘unreal’ elements in the patient's typical affective strategies.
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The mysterious human mind was the alembic then, as it is for us now.
Marilynne Robinson: Religion, Science and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
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For the same sum, an alchemist may purchase alembics, athanors and general laboratory equipment which allows them to double the number of potions they can brew between adventures.
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They chew hasheesh; cut themselves with poisoned creases; swing their hammock in the boughs of the Bohon Upas; taste every poison; buy every secret; at Naples, they put St. Januarius's blood in an alembic; they saw a hole into the head of the "winking Virgin," to know why she winks; measure with an English footrule every cell of the Inquisition, every Turkish caaba, every Holy of holies; translate and send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Bramins; and measure their own strength by the terror they cause.
English Traits (1856)
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Providence: his mind was like a warm climate, which brings everything to perfection suddenly and vigorously, not like the alembicated productions of artificial fire, which always betray the difficulty of bringing them forth when their size is disproportionate to their flavour.
Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson
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He employed alembics for distillations and aludels for sublimations.
