alembic

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An early chemical apparatus, consisting of two retorts connected by a tube, used to purify substances by distillation.
    — Ideal beauty is not the mind’s creation: it is real beauty, refined and purified in the mind’s alembic, from the alloy which always more or less accompanies it in our mixed and imperfect nature.

词形变化

alembics plural alembick alternative,obsolete limbeck alternative,obsolete

词源

From French alambic, from Medieval Latin alembīcus, from Arabic الإِنْبِيق (al-ʔinbīq), from Ancient Greek ἄμβιξ (ámbix, “cup, cap of a still”). Doublet of ambix and lambic.
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