2. The act of heightening or improving; exaltation; elevation; purification.
3. That which is sublimed; the product of a purifying process.
Religion is the perfection, refinement, and sublimation of morality.
South. Sublimatory
(Sub"li*ma*to*ry) a. Used for sublimation; as, sublimatory vessels. Boyle.
Sublimatory
(Sub"li*ma*to*ry), n. A vessel used for sublimation.
Vials, crosslets, and sublimatories.
Chaucer. Sublime
(Sub*lime") a. [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.
Sublime
(Sub*lime"), n. 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.
Sublime
(Sub*lime"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sublimed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Subliming.] [Cf. L. sublimare, F.
sublimer to subject to sublimation. See Sublime, a., and cf. Sublimate, v. t.]
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.
