alembicated
Britishadjective
Other Word Forms
- alembication noun
Example Sentences
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When you are forced to taste, see, hear, touch, and smell simultaneously, then you yearn for a less alembicated art.
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But it is not a convincing form, and no genius, living or potential, can make it a convincing form, save when it deals with matters removed from our quotidian life and environment: save when it presents a heightened and alembicated image of human experience.
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We are thrown back on the written "portraits," in the alembicated style of the middle of the century, which adorn a host of novels and poems.
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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
In her alembicated style she says to Cecil, 'I hope for my sake you will rather draw for Walter towards the east than help him forward toward the sunset, if any respect to me or love to him be not forgotten.
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