alembicated

British  

/ əˈlɛmbɪˌkeɪtɪd /

adjective

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

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Other Word Forms

• alembication noun

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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.

From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund

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

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