distillatory
- a word derived from distillation.
Example Sentences
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The early scientific habit of analogy was still strong, but Harvey had no time for the then-current distillatory or alchemical model of blood circulation.
From The Guardian • Jun. 6, 2012
The former is expansive and would include events like Peter Brook's The Mahabharata and the RSC's Nicholas Nickleby and The Canterbury Tales: the latter is distillatory and contains the work of Ibsen, Chekhov and Pinter.
From The Guardian • Aug. 22, 2011
The ocean, winds, and woods may be regarded as the several parts of a grand distillatory apparatus.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.
The distillatory apparatus should be provided with an excellent air-pump, capable of preventing all those entrances of air which are inevitable in practice.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 by Various
A French physician, who travelled in China, says he never saw an alembic or distillatory apparatus in the whole country.
