alembicated

• It is Chopin at the supreme summit of his art, an art alembicated, personal and intoxicating. —  Chopin : the Man and His Music
• The purer love part of the matter is a little, as the French themselves say, "alembicated." —  A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
• - ancient distilling apparatus; purifying or transforming apparatus or act. alembicate, v. distil. alembicated, adj. rather too refined (of literary style). alethiology —  xml's Blinklist.com
• Astounding, canorous, enchanting, alembicated and dramatic, the Chopin studies are exemplary essays in emotion and manner. —  Chopin : the Man and His Music
• Providence: his mind was like a warm climate, which brings everything to perfection suddenly and vigorously, not like the alembicated productions of artificial fire, which always betray the difficulty of bringing them forth when their size is disproportionate to their flavour. —  Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson

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