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sub⋅lime

  [suh-blahym] adjective, noun, verb, -limed, -lim⋅ing.
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–adjective
1. elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc.: Paradise Lost is sublime poetry.
2. impressing the mind with a sense of grandeur or power; inspiring awe, veneration, etc.: Switzerland has sublime scenery.
3. supreme or outstanding: a sublime dinner.
4. complete; absolute; utter: sublime stupidity.
5. Archaic.
a. of lofty bearing.
b. haughty.
6. Archaic. raised high; high up.
–noun
7. the sublime,
a. the realm of things that are sublime: the sublime in art.
b. the quality of sublimity.
c. the greatest or supreme degree.
–verb (used with object)
8. to make higher, nobler, or purer.
9. Chemistry.
a. to convert (a solid substance) by heat into a vapor, which on cooling condenses again to solid form, without apparent liquefaction.
b. to cause to be given off by this or some analogous process.
–verb (used without object)
10. Chemistry. to volatilize from the solid state to a gas, and then condense again as a solid without passing through the liquid state.
Origin:
1350–1400; (n. and adj.) < L sublīmis high, equiv. to sub- sub- + an element of uncert. orig., variously identified with līmis, līmus oblique or līmen lintel, threshold; (v.) ME sublimen < OF sublimer < L sublimāre to raise, deriv. of sublimis

Related forms:
sub⋅lime⋅ly, adverb
sub⋅lime⋅ness, noun
sub⋅lim⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1. exalted, noble. 2. magnificent, superb, august, grand, gorgeous, resplendent, imposing, majestic.
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sub·lime   (sə-blīm')   
adj.  

  1. Characterized by nobility; majestic.

    1. Of high spiritual, moral, or intellectual worth.

    2. Not to be excelled; supreme.

  3. Inspiring awe; impressive.

  4. Archaic Raised aloft; set high.

  5. Obsolete Of lofty appearance or bearing; haughty: "not terrible,/That I should fear . . . /But solemn and sublime" (John Milton).

n.  

  1. Something sublime.

  2. An ultimate example.

v.   sub·limed, sub·lim·ing, sub·limes

v.   tr.

  1. To render sublime.

  2. Chemistry To cause to sublimate.

v.   intr. Chemistry
To sublimate.

[French, from Old French, sublimated, from Latin sublīmis, uplifted.]
sub·lime'ly adv., sub·lime'ness, sub·lim'i·ty (sə-blĭm'ĭ-tē) n.
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Word Origin & History

sublime 
1586, "expressing lofty ideas in an elevated manner," from M.Fr. sublime, from L. sublimis "uplifted, high, lofty," possibly originally "sloping up to the lintel," from sub "up to" + limen "lintel." The sublime "the sublime part of anything" is from 1679. Sublime Porte, former title of the Ottoman government, is from Fr. la Sublime Porte, lit. "the high gate," a loan-translation of Arabic Bab 'Ali, title of the Ottoman court at Constantinople (cf. mikado).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: sub·lime
Pronunciation: s&-'blIm
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: sub·limed; sub·lim·ing
transitivesenses
: to cause to pass from the solid to the vapor state by heating and to condense back to solid form sublime intransitive senses
: to pass directly fromthe solid to the vapor state
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Encyclopedia

sublime

in literary criticism, grandeur of thought, emotion, and spirit that characterizes great literature. It is the topic of an incomplete treatise, On the Sublime, that was for long attributed to the 3rd-century Greek philosopher Cassius Longinus but now believed to have been written in the 1st century AD by an unknown writer frequently designated Pseudo-Longinus.

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