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 […]