alembicated
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The book is littered with show-off phrases such as "alembicated piety" and "the penetralia of one's self-regard."
From Time Magazine Archive
Astounding, canorous, enchanting, alembicated and dramatic, the Chopin studies are exemplary essays in emotion and manner.
From Chopin : the Man and His Music by James Huneker
We are thrown back on the written "portraits," in the alembicated style of the middle of the century, which adorn a host of novels and poems.
From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse
When you are forced to taste, see, hear, touch, and smell simultaneously, then you yearn for a less alembicated art.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
It is Chopin at the supreme summit of his art, an art alembicated, personal and intoxicating.
From Chopin : the Man and His Music by James Huneker
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