alembicated

English

Etymology

From alembic +‎ -ated.

Adjective

alembicated (comparative more alembicated, superlative most alembicated)

1. Over-refined; (of ideas, expressions etc.) excessively stylised.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 321:

     Blanford could hear his creation tearing open a bag of potato chips and starting to champ them as he reflected furiously upon these all too alembicated ideas.