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Webster 1913 Edition

Stillatory

Stil′la-to-ry

,
Noun.
;
pl.
-ries
(#)
.
[From
Still
, for
distill
. Cf.
Still
,
Noun.
, and
Distillatory
,
Adj.
]
1.
An alembic; a vessel for distillation.
[R.]
Bacon.
2.
A laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed.
[R.]
Dr. H. More.
Sir H. Wotton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Stillatory

STILLATORY

,
Noun.
1.
An alembic; a vessel for distillation. [Little used or not at all.]
2.
A laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed. [Little used.]

Definition 2024

stillatory

stillatory

English

Noun

stillatory ‎(plural stillatories)

  1. A vessel used for distillation
  2. A place in which distillation is performed.
    • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 48:
      "For these are Nature's Stillatories, in whose hollow Caverns the ascending vapours are congealed to that universal Aqua vitæ, that good fresh-water, the liquor of life, that sustains all the living Creatures in the world […] "

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