stillatory

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One, with an index on the Book, cries out, in a style pardonable to his fervency: The remedy of your frightful affliction is here, through the stillatory of Comedy, and not in Science, nor yet in Speed, whose name is but another for voracity.

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  1. A still; a vessel for distillation; an alembic. His forheed dropped as a stillatorie Were ful of plantayne and of paritorie. Chaucer, Prol. to Canon's Yeoman's Tale, l. 27. In stillatories where the vapour is turned back upon itself by the encounter of the sides of the stillatory. Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 27.
  2. A laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed; a still-room. Marius, Armanus, as you are noble friends, Go to the privy garden, and in the walk Next to the stillatory stay for me. Beau. and Fl. (?), Faithful Friends, iv. 3.

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  • One, with an index on the Book, cries out, in a style pardonable to his fervency: The remedy of your frightful affliction is here, through the stillatory of Comedy, and not in Science, nor yet in Speed, whose name is but another for voracity. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • It contains a very fine palace, a convent, and a college and hospital, all which are exactly well kept and royally furnished; but I cannot omit saying, that the finest stillatory I ever saw is there, being a very large room shelved round, with glasses sized and sorted upon the shelves, many of crystal gilt, and the rest of Venice glasses, and some of vast sizes; the floor is paved with black and white marble; and in the middle stands a furnace, with five hundred stills around it, with glass like a pyramid, with glass heads. —  Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bart., ambassador from Charles the Second to the courts of Portugal and Madrid.
 

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  1. from Middle English stillatorie, a distilling-vessel (cf. Old French F. stillatoire, adjective), from Middle Latin stillatorium, neuter of *stillatorius, adjective, from Latin stillare, past participle stillatus, fall in drops: see still, v.
 

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