[alem.bic] n [ME, fr. MF & ML; MF alambic & ML alembicum, fr. Ar al-anbiq, fr. al the + anbiq still, fr. LGk ambik-, ambix alembic, fr. Gk, cap of a still] (14c) 1: an apparatus used in distillation
2: something that refines or transmutes as if by distillation "philosophy ... filtered through the ~ of Plato's mind --B. T. Shropshire"