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spirit of wine(also spirits of wine) noun [mass noun] archaicPurified alcohol.However translations of far older Indian and Chinese medical documents mention products that would need spirits of wine to produce....- This was purified and dried and when digested with spirits of wine gave the mauve dye.
- Robert Boyle's observation in the 1650s that decomposition of animal and human tissues could be prevented by immersing them in spirits of wine was a notable advance.
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