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English
Etymology
From alembic + -ated.
Adjective
alembicated (comparative more alembicated, superlative most alembicated)
- Over-refined; (of ideas, expressions etc.) excessively stylised.
1896, Henry James, Glasses: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....
1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 321:Blanford could hear his creation tearing open a bag of potato chips and starting to champ them as he reflected furiously upon these all too alembicated ideas.