Why this word is great
ALEMBICATION — [Noun] The act of refining or purifying, often through distillation, or the use of language artificially purified to the point of preciousness. From Latin alembicatio, from alembicum ("alembic, a distilling apparatus"), itself from Arabic al-inbīq, from Greek ambix ("cup, beaker"). Unlike distillation, a neutral, technical process, or grandiloquence, a mere inflation of speech, alembication implies a meticulous, often suspect, transmutation toward an esoteric essence. It is the alchemist's patient, futile cycling of vapors; the scholar's prose polished to an impenetrable lacquer; the raw feeling of grief filtered through classical allusions until it emerges sterile and glittering—a pursuit of purity that risks leaving all vitality behind in the spent dregs.