Ideal beauty is not the mind’s creation: it is real beauty, refined and purified in the mind’s alembic, from the alloy which always more or less accompanies it in our mixed and imperfect nature.
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Alembic
//əˈlɛm.bɪk//
Synonyms for "alembic" (14 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Strong matches (4)
Related words (7)
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Translations
31 translations across 22 languages.
Ancient Greek
3 entries- ἄμβικος noun (chemical apparatus)
- ἄμβιξ noun (chemical apparatus)
- ἄμβυξ noun (chemical apparatus)
Catalan
1 entries- alambí noun (chemical apparatus)
Czech
1 entries- alembik noun (chemical apparatus)
Dutch
1 entries- alambiek noun (chemical apparatus)
Finnish
2 entries- retortti noun (chemical apparatus)
- tislausastia noun (chemical apparatus)
French
1 entries- alambic noun (chemical apparatus)
Galician
1 entries- alambique noun (chemical apparatus)
German
2 entries- Alambic noun (chemical apparatus)
- Destillierkolben noun (chemical apparatus)
Greek
1 entries- άμβικας noun (chemical apparatus)
Hungarian
2 entries- lepárlókészülék noun (chemical apparatus)
- lombik noun (chemical apparatus)
Ido
1 entries- alambiko noun (chemical apparatus)
Irish
1 entries- ailimic noun (chemical apparatus)
Italian
1 entries- alambicco noun (chemical apparatus)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- انبیق noun (chemical apparatus)
Persian
4 entries- انبک noun (chemical apparatus)
- انبیق noun (chemical apparatus)
- خنب noun (chemical apparatus)
- دمبند noun (chemical apparatus)
Polish
1 entries- alembik noun (chemical apparatus)
Portuguese
1 entries- alambique noun (chemical apparatus)
Romanian
1 entries- alambic noun (chemical apparatus)
Russian
2 entries- дистилля́тор noun (chemical apparatus)
- перего́нный куб noun (chemical apparatus)
Sicilian
1 entries- alammicu noun (chemical apparatus)
Spanish
1 entries- alambique noun (chemical apparatus)
Turkish
1 entries- imbik noun (chemical apparatus)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Thus is Art, a nature passed through the alembic of man.
Source: wiktionary
The great physiologist Schwann, for instance, who died in 1882, maintained that there was an insurmountable barrier between us and those whom Michelet calls our inferior brethren. To him animals were alembics and electric batteries; mechanics, physics, and chemistry could account for all their manifestations.
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We of all magical precipitates out of Europe’s groaning, clouded alembic, we are the thinnest, the most dangerous, the handiest to secular uses —
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