ALEMBIC


Meaning of ALEMBIC in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ə-ˈlem-bik ]

noun

Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French & Medieval Latin; Middle French alambic & Medieval Latin alembicum, from Arabic al-anbīq, from al the + anbīq still, from Late Greek ambik-, ambix alembic, from Greek, cap of a still

Date: 14th century

1. : an apparatus used in distillation

2. : something that refines or transmutes as if by distillation

philosophy…filtered through the alembic of Plato's mind — B. T. Shropshire

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