distillation
noun
the volatilization or evaporation and subsequent condensation of a liquid, as when water is boiled in a retort and the steam is condensed in a cool receiver.
distillatory
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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 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.
Captain Nemo took me to the galleys, where the vast distillatory machines stood that furnished the drinkable water by evaporation.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
