Alembicated

adj, verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of alembicate form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 1
    Over-refined; (of ideas, expressions etc.) excessively stylised.

    "I wanted him to give her up and luminously informed him why; on which he never protested nor contradicted, never was even so alembicated as to declare just for the sake of the drama that he wouldn't. He simply and undramatically didn't...."

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"I wanted him to give her up and luminously informed him why; on which he never protested nor contradicted, never was even so alembicated as to declare just for the sake of the drama that he wouldn't. He simply and undramatically didn't...."

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