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How To Use alembic In A Sentence

• 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
• 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
• Its insignia was two alembics with spouts crossed against a benzene ring.
• 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?
• 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
• Astounding, canorous, enchanting, alembicated and dramatic, the Chopin studies are exemplary essays in emotion and manner. Chopin : the Man and His Music
• The medium-weight, alembic distilled vodka immediately washes the palate with a lavish array of raspberry flavors that rivals the real thing.
• 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
• An alembic is an apparatus formerly used in distillation and the word comes from al-inbiq, the still.
• The prose style of Boccaccio is not a simple style—rather it is curious and alembicated.