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alem·bic \əˈlembik\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English alambic, alembic, from Middle French & Medieval Latin; Middle French alambic & Medieval Latin alembicum, from Arabic al-anbīq the still, from al the + anbīq still, from Late Greek ambik-, ambix alembic, from Greek, spouted cup, cap of a still 1. : an apparatus usually made of glass or metal formerly much used in distillation 2. : something that refines or transmutes as if by a process of distillation < intellect as an alembic for the refinement of sensation — Listener > < philosophy of Asia and Greece as filtered through the alembic of Plato's mind — American Scholar > [alembic 1] |