alembicatev.

Brit.

/əˈlɛmbɪkeɪt/, U.S.

/əˈlɛmbɪˌkeɪt/

Forms: 1600s alembicate (past participle), 1600s 1800s– alembicate.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: alembic n., -ate suffix³.

Etymology: < alembic n. + -ate suffix³. Compare slightly earlier alembication n. and slightly later alembic v.

transitive. To distil in an alembic. Chiefly figurative: to produce, refine, or transform (an idea, emotion, etc.) as if in an alembic. Cf. alembicated adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [verb (transitive)] > purify or refine

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1627 P. Hay Advt. Subj. Scotl. 143 The Subtill Alchymist can separate The Quintessence, and make it to ascende: So are the Church Prayers Alembicate, By that Great Sprite, who doth Her still defende.

?a1678 H. V. D. Tomb Semiramis iv. 20 The Mercurial Oyl of Salt putrefied and alembicated.

1807 Anti-Jacobin Rev. & Mag. Nov. 284 The Popish priests, as it were, alembicate the unsocial, intolerant, and sanguinary doctrines of the general councils.

1890 Rev. of Reviews Jan. 77/2 Such materials alembicated by the biographer's brain form interesting and profitable reading enough.

1939 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Dec. 742/3 A passion kindled by the sight of her bloody ravisher and further alembicated by the fact that Iphigénie becomes aware, like an ultra-modern psychologist, of its dubious origin.

2001 J. Duran Worlds of Knowing ix. 244 In alembicating the African-derived patterns of knowledge growth and transmission in black American cultures, we draw attention to areas that previously were comparatively unexamined.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	alembicate
释义	alembicatev. Brit. /əˈlɛmbɪkeɪt/, U.S. /əˈlɛmbɪˌkeɪt/ Forms: 1600s alembicate (past participle), 1600s 1800s– alembicate. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: alembic n., -ate suffix³. Etymology: < alembic n. + -ate suffix³. Compare slightly earlier alembication n. and slightly later alembic v. transitive. To distil in an alembic. Chiefly figurative: to produce, refine, or transform (an idea, emotion, etc.) as if in an alembic. Cf. alembicated adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [verb (transitive)] > purify or refine slick1340 filec1400 polishc1400 burnish1526 polite1535 extirpate1548 purify1548 soften1579 purgea1582 refine1592 mellow1593 civilize1596 rarefy1600 incivilize1603 sublimate1624 alembicate1627 chastise1627 sublime1631 calcine1635 gentilize1635 ennoble1636 subtilize1638 deconcoct1655 sublimizea1729 smooth1762 absterge1817 decrassify1855 sandpaper1890 1627 P. Hay Advt. Subj. Scotl. 143 The Subtill Alchymist can separate The Quintessence, and make it to ascende: So are the Church Prayers Alembicate, By that Great Sprite, who doth Her still defende. ?a1678 H. V. D. Tomb Semiramis iv. 20 The Mercurial Oyl of Salt putrefied and alembicated. 1807 Anti-Jacobin Rev. & Mag. Nov. 284 The Popish priests, as it were, alembicate the unsocial, intolerant, and sanguinary doctrines of the general councils. 1890 Rev. of Reviews Jan. 77/2 Such materials alembicated by the biographer's brain form interesting and profitable reading enough. 1939 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Dec. 742/3 A passion kindled by the sight of her bloody ravisher and further alembicated by the fact that Iphigénie becomes aware, like an ultra-modern psychologist, of its dubious origin. 2001 J. Duran Worlds of Knowing ix. 244 In alembicating the African-derived patterns of knowledge growth and transmission in black American cultures, we draw attention to areas that previously were comparatively unexamined. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1627
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