#still

• Abbey — A large, autonomous Catholic monastery governed by an abbot or an abbess, often comprising an ensemble of religious and administrative buildings. In the historical evolution of medicine, an abbey functioned as a complex social and hospital care hub, integrating a rudimentary sanitarium, a leprosarium (during epidemics), and early laboratories for distilling medicinal essences.
• Alembic — An apparatus or traditional installation used for the distillation of liquids, structurally composed of a boiling vessel, a vapor collecting cap or still head, and a cooling tube shaped like a coil; a metallic device (often made of copper) historically used in alchemy and laboratories, and currently on an industrial and household scale for extracting essential oils, perfumes, and manufacturing distilled alcoholic beverages.
• To overcomplicate — To subject a liquid to the distillation process inside an alembic; by metaphorical and stylistic extension in modern language, to overly complicate an idea, theory, reasoning, or written text, rendering it hard to understand, obscure, subtle, or artificial due to unnecessary sophistication. This conceptual process structurally represents the transition from the technical sense of chemical refining to the figurative sense of exaggerated abstract analysis.
• Overcomplication — The act of achromatizing and its result; the technical process of distilling a liquid substance within a specialized apparatus; in a figurative sense, the structural process of overcomplicating, excessively complicating, or artificially sophitsticating a discourse, literary text, or logical system. This abstract manifestation leads to a loss of clarity and spontaneity in favor of an obscure manner.
• Alcoholmeter — A simplified form or spelling variant for alcoholmeter or alcoholimeter; a graduated instrument used to measure the density of water and ethyl alcohol mixtures, indicating directly the volumetric concentration of ethanol (alcohol proof or ABV). It is widely used in industrial and artisanal spirits production to monitor distillation processes.
• Arcoziță — A regional term specifically used in the Maramureș region to designate the product obtained after the first distillation of fruit mash, also popularly known as 'smelly horincă'. Structurally, arcozița represents an intermediate, raw, and incompletely refined alcoholic liquid that requires a second boiling (redistillation) to become pure, high-quality horincă.
• Attar — A proper name particularly associated with Farid ud-Din Attar, a famous twelfth-century Persian mystic poet and Sufi theorist, author of 'The Conference of the Birds'. In the Middle East and India, the term (often spelled 'itar') also designates a natural, pure, and concentrated perfume oil obtained through the structural distillation of flower petals into sandalwood bases.