alembication

Meaning

  1. (countable, literary, rare, uncountable) The act of making something more refined or pure; distillation.
  2. (countable, literary, rare, uncountable) Excessively refined or pretentious language.

Translations

απόσταξη

απόσταγμα

διύλιση

απόσταξη/διύλιση

destillatio

distillatio

distillatie

Destillaat

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin alembicatio, from Latin alembīcum.

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