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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sublime \Sub*lime"\, verb (used without an object) (Chem.) To pass off in vapor, with immediate condensation; specifically, to evaporate or volatilize from the solid state without apparent melting; -- said of those substances, like arsenic, benzoic acid, etc., which do not exhibit a liquid form on heating, except under increased pressure.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sublime \Sub*lime"\, noun That which is sublime; -- with the definite article; as: (a) A grand or lofty style in speaking or writing; a style that expresses lofty conceptions.
The sublime rises from the nobleness of thoughts, the magnificence of words, or the harmonious and lively turn of the phrase. --Addison. (b) That which is grand in nature or art, as distinguished from the merely beautiful.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sublime \Sub*lime"\, adjective [Compar. {Sublimer}; superl. {Sublimest}.] [L. sublimis; sub under + (perhaps) a word akin to limen lintel, sill, thus meaning, up to the lintel: cf. F. sublime. Cf. {Eliminate}.]
1. Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.
Sublime on these a tower of steel is reared. --Dryden.
2. Distinguished by lofty or noble traits; eminent; -- said of persons. ''The sublime Julian leader.'' --De Quincey.
3. Awakening or expressing the emotion of awe, adoration, veneration, heroic resolve, etc.; dignified; grand; solemn; stately; -- said of an impressive object in nature, of an action, of a discourse, of a work of art, of a spectacle, etc.; as, sublime scenery; a sublime deed.
Easy in words thy style, in sense sublime. --Prior.
Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. --Longfellow.
4. Elevated by joy; elate. [Poetic]
Their hearts were jocund and sublime, Drunk with idolatry, drunk with wine. --Milton.
5. Lofty of mien; haughty; proud. [Poetic] ''Countenance sublime and insolent.'' --Spenser.
His fair, large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule. --Milton.
Syn: Exalted; lofty; noble; majestic. See {Grand}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sublime \Sub*lime"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Sublimed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Subliming}.] [Cf. L. sublimare, F. sublimer to subject to sublimation. See {Sublime}, adjective, and cf. {Sublimate}, verb (used with an object)]
1. To raise on high. [Archaic]
A soul sublimed by an idea above the region of vanity and conceit. --E. P. Whipple.
2. (Chem.) To subject to the process of sublimation; to heat, volatilize, and condense in crystals or powder; to distill off, and condense in solid form; hence, also, to purify.
3. To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.
The sun . . . Which not alone the southern wit sublimes, But ripens spirits in cold, northern climes. --Pope.
4. To dignify; to ennoble.
An ordinary gift can not sublime a person to a supernatural employment. --Jer. Taylor.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sublime
adjective
1: inspiring awe; "well-meaning ineptitude that rises to empyreal absurdity"- M.S.Dworkin; "empyrean aplomb"- Hamilton Basso; "the sublime beauty of the night" [syn: {empyreal}, {empyrean}]
2: worthy of adoration or reverence [syn: {revered}, {reverenced}, {reverend}, {venerated}]
3: lifted up or set high; "their hearts were jocund and sublime"- Milton
verb
1: vaporize and then condense right back again [syn: {sublimate}]
2: change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting; "sublime iodine"; "some salts sublime when heated" [syn: {sublimate}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
218 Moby Thesaurus words for "sublime": Elysian, Olympian, abstract, aerate, aerial, aerify, aggrandize, aggrandized, airy, altitudinous, apotheosized, ascending, aspiring, atomize, august, awe-inspiring, awesome, beaming, beatific, beatified, big, bighearted, blissful, blooming, bolt, bright, brilliant, canonized, carbonate, chivalrous, chlorinate, clarify, clear, colossal, dazzling, decrassify, deified, depurate, devastating, dignified, dignify, distill, distinguish, distinguished, divine, dominating, edulcorate, elevated, elute, eminent, emit, empyreal, empyrean, ennoble, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, erect, essentialize, ethereal, etherify, etherize, evaporate, exalted, excellent, exhale, extract, famous, filter, filtrate, fluidize, fractionate, fume, fumigate, gasify, generous, give off, glamorous, glorified, glorify, glorious, glowing, godlike, good, gorgeous, grand, grave, great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome, haughty, heavenly, held in awe, heroic, high, high and mighty, high-minded, high-pitched, high-reaching, high-set, high-up, holy, honor, honorable, humbling, hydrogenate, ideal, idealistic, immortal, immortalized, inspiring, killing, knightly, largehearted, lauded, leach, liberal, lifted, lixiviate, lofty, magnanimous, magnificent, magnified, magnify, majestic, mighty, mind-boggling, monumental, mounting, moving, noble, noble-minded, on stilts, openhanded, outtopping, overlooking, overpowering, overtopping, overwhelming, oxygenate, paradisiac, paradisial, paradisian, paradisic, percolate, perfume, princely, prominent, proud, purify, radiant, raised, rampant, raving, ravishing, rectify, reek, refine, renowned, resplendent, sacred, sainted, saintly, sanctified, screen, send out, separate, serious, shining, shrined, sieve, sift, smoke, soaring, solemn, sparkling, spiring, spiritual, spiritualize, splendid, splendiferous, splendorous, splendrous, spray, stately, steam, steep, stilted, strain, stunning, sublimate, superb, supereminent, superlative, supernal, supreme, throned, topless, toplofty, topping, towering, towery, transcendent, transcendental, try, upcast, upflung, uplifted, upraised, uprear, upreared, upright, upthrown, vaporize, volatilize, weighty, winnow
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