(thing) by Frater 219 Fri Oct 27 2000 at 6:58:11

Medieval Latin for any distilled alcoholic beverage. Literally, water of life. (Contrast aqua regia.) The names of at least two forms of liquor -- whiskey and akvavit -- come from this term.

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