Meanings
plural ambices
- Synonym of alembic.
The vapor condensed in the ambix, which was cooled with sponges, and a rim on the inside of the ambix collected the distillate and carried it to three copper delivery spouts fitted with receiving vessels.
2012, Bernard X Bovasso, Jung, Faust and the Devil: Return to Alexandria & the Voices of the Dead, page 126Synonyms: alembic
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of alembic.
Origin
- Ancient Greekἄμβιξ“cup, cap of a still”
- Englishambix
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἄμβιξ (ámbix, “cup, cap of a still”). Doublet of alembic and lambic.
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