Highly refined, purified, or distilled; often used to describe overly complex language or thought that has been reduced to its essence.
Past participle of alembicate, describing the state of having been subjected to alembication or the alembic process.
Literary critics use 'alembicated' to describe writing that's been edited so much it becomes almost abstract—like how distillation removes water until only pure alcohol remains!
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