alembic

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Although he relished putting his life into his art, he boiled life in his poet’s alembic at a pretty high temperature, and much of the who, when, and how was volatilized away.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 2, 2017

London’s smallest museum and gin symposium lab, The Ginstitute, houses a unique collection of gin related memorabilia including Jerry Thomas’ business card and is home to a 30L alembic still, named Copernicus the Second.

From Forbes • Apr. 17, 2015

There was, in him, such a simmer of emotions, like chemicals thrown together in an alembic: fear like a sulfur fog, bitterness as sharp as salt, and damned fickle mercury for failure and desperation.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

In the alembic of Shakespeare's brain the baser metals were turned to gold—passions became virtues—weeds became exotics, from some diviner land—and common mortals made of ordinary clay outranked the Olympian Gods.

From Shakespeare A Lecture by Ingersoll, Robert Green

The life principle escapes before the alembic or retort is brought into requisition.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson