Crossword-Solution: ALEMBIC
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Alembic | n. | An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ALEMBIC | anagram | LABMICE |
We have 13 clues for the answer “ALEMBIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Apparatus used in distilling. | 1 answer |
| Distilling device. | 1 answer |
| Old distiller's vessel | 1 answer |
| Old type of distilling apparatus. | 1 answer |
| Distilling apparatus. | 2 answers |
| Beaker | 13 answers |
| BEAKED VESSEL | 14 answers |
| ARCANUM | 15 answers |
| Purifier | 15 answers |
| Pitcher | 39 answers |
| retort | 43 answers |
| Vessel | 60 answers |
| Still | 89 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with ALEMBIC (5)
The venerable Isaac is subjected to an alembic, which will distil from him all he holds dear, without any assistance from my requests or thy entreaty.
The principal component parts were burnt wine and rosemary, passed through an alembic; a drachm of it was to be taken once a week, "etelbenn vagy italbann," in the food or the drink, early in the morning, and the cheeks were to be moistened with it every day.
That old fable of the Indian woman has become a truth by the deep and deadly science of Rappaccini and in the person of the lovely Beatrice.” Giovanni groaned and hid his face “Her father,” continued Baglioni, “was not restrained by natural affection from offering up his child in this horrible manner as the victim of his insane zeal for science; for, let us do him justice, he is as true a man of science as ever distilled his own heart in an alembic.
They first invented and named the alembic for the purposes of distillation, analyzed the substances of the three kingdoms of nature, tried the distinction and affinities of alcalis and acids, and converted the poisonous minerals into soft and salutary medicines.
One by one his worlds evaporated, rose beyond his vision as vapours in the hot alembic of the sun, sank for ever beneath sea-levels, themselves unreal and passing as the phantoms of a dream.
Quotes with ALEMBIC (2)
American musicians, instead of investigating ragtime, attempt to ignore it, or dismiss it with a contemptuous word. But that has always been the course of scholasticism in every branch of art. Whatever new thing the 'people' like is poohpoohed; whatever is 'popular' is spoken of as not worth the while. The fact is, nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best that he gives to the world he…
The fact is, nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best that he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1942–1994).