имя существительное [устаревшее] перегонный куб Например: through the alembic of fancy — сквозь призму воображения
noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French and Medieval Latin; Middle French alambic and Medieval Latin alembicum, from Arabic al-anbīq, from al the + anbīq still, from Late Greek ambik-, ambix alembic, from Greek, cap of a still 1. an apparatus used in distillation 2. something that refines or transmutes as if by distillation Example: philosophy…filtered through the alembic of Plato's mind — B. T. Shropshire