alambicar

From the noun alambique (“still”), from Arabic إِنْبِيق‎ (ʔinbīq, “still”), from Ancient Greek ἄμβιξ (ámbix).

alambicar (first-person singular present alambico, first-person singular preterite alambiquei, past participle alambicado)

1. to distill
2. to complicate

• Note: alambic- are changed to alambiqu- before front vowels (e).

From the noun alambique (“still”), from Arabic الإِنْبِيق‎ (al-ʔinbīq, “still”), from Ancient Greek ἄμβιξ (ámbix).

alambicar (first-person singular present alambico, first-person singular preterite alambiquei, past participle alambicado)

1. to distill

   Synonym: destilar

2. (by extension) to refine

   Synonym: requintar

3. (by extension) to complicate excessively
4. to scrutinize, to examine closely

   Synonym: examinar

5. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to become pretentious

• alambicado

From alambique (“still”) +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /alambiˈkaɾ/ [a.lãm.biˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧lam‧bi‧car

alambicar (first-person singular present alambico, first-person singular preterite alambiqué, past participle alambicado)

1. (transitive) to distill

   Synonym: destilar

2. (transitive) to scrutinize, to examine closely
3. (transitive) to complicate excessively
   • 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:

     […] la sociedad modelo, según las ideas de su padre, había alambicado y desvirtuado un poco la idea religiosa, dejándose seducir demasiado por los símbolos que la misma idea religiosa emplea como órganos eficaces y al mismo tiempo como culto tributado por la verdad a la belleza eterna.

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• “alambicar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014