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alembicated

British  
/ əˈlɛmbɪˌkeɪtɪd /

adjective

  1. (of a literary style) excessively refined; precious

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The book is littered with show-off phrases such as "alembicated piety" and "the penetralia of one's self-regard."

From Time Magazine Archive

It is Chopin at the supreme summit of his art, an art alembicated, personal and intoxicating.

From Chopin : the Man and His Music by Huneker, James

When you are forced to taste, see, hear, touch, and smell simultaneously, then you yearn for a less alembicated art.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

Astounding, canorous, enchanting, alembicated and dramatic, the Chopin studies are exemplary essays in emotion and manner.

From Chopin : the Man and His Music by Huneker, James

The purer love part of the matter is a little, as the French themselves say, "alembicated."

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George

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