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distillatory

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to distillation; used for distilling: as, distillatory vessels.
  • noun An apparatus used in distillation; a still.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Belonging to, or used in, distilling.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Belonging to, or used in, distilling.
  • noun A distillatory apparatus; a still.

Etymologies

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Compare French distillatoire.

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Examples

  • Is it not “really” cooking if it involves a distillatory or a centrifuge?

    The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

  • Is it not “really” cooking if it involves a distillatory or a centrifuge?

    The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

  • Captain Nemo took me to the galleys, where the vast distillatory machines stood that furnished the drinkable water by evaporation.

    Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

  • The distillatory apparatus should be provided with an excellent air-pump, capable of preventing all those entrances of air which are inevitable in practice.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 Various

  • Mr Croll has also introduced another mode of producing sulphate of ammonia, which dispenses with all the apparatus hitherto in use after the distillatory portion, and produces the salt in a state fit for the farmer, ready to be put on the land.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 Various

  • Captain Nemo took me to the galleys, where the vast distillatory machines stood that furnished the drinkable water by evaporation.

    Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Jules Verne 1866

  • Of these, the one most spacious and convenient had been selected by Doctor Grimshawe as a study, and fitted up with bookshelves, and various machines and contrivances, electrical, chemical, and distillatory, wherewith he might pursue such researches as were wont to engage his attention.

    Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

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