Obs. [f. sb.; cf. Fr. alambiquer.] To distill as in an alembic; = ALEMBICATE.
1635. Person, Var., I. i. 8. The heavens are of a fift substance, not alembecked out of the foure elements.
a. 1666. J. Shirley, Closet of Rar. (ed. 5), 9. To distill, or rather alembick, spirit of wine.
1749. H. Walpole, Corr. (1837), I. 138. The important mysteries that have been alembicked out of a trifle.
