alembic

Pronounced: uh-LEM-bick, noun

Notes: I don’t think I’ve run across this word


Yesterday’s word

The word gloze means “to explain away something; to extenuate or make seem less serious; to gloss over”

First usage

This word goes way back to the mid- to late 1200s

Background / Comments

The word came from Middle English, and into Middle English from the Old French word gloser and into Old French from the Medieval Latin word glossāre.

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