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Sublime   /səblˈaɪm/   Listen
adjective
Sublime  adj.  (compar. sublimer; superl. sublimest)  
1.
Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty. "Sublime on these a tower of steel is reared."
2.
Distinguished by lofty or noble traits; eminent; said of persons. "The sublime Julian leader."
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." "Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong."
4.
Elevated by joy; elate. (Poetic) "Their hearts were jocund and sublime, Drunk with idolatry, drunk with wine."
5.
Lofty of mien; haughty; proud. (Poetic) "Countenance sublime and insolent." "His fair, large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule."
Synonyms: Exalted; lofty; noble; majestic. See Grand.


noun
Sublime  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."
(b)
That which is grand in nature or art, as distinguished from the merely beautiful.


verb
Sublime  v. t.  (past & past part. sublimed; pres. part. subliming)  
1.
To raise on high. (Archaic) "A soul sublimed by an idea above the region of vanity and conceit."
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."
4.
To dignify; to ennoble. "An ordinary gift can not sublime a person to a supernatural employment."


Sublime  v. i.  (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.





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"Sublime" Quotes from Famous Books



... 1781. Darwin was a “votary to poetry,” a philosopher, and a clever though an eccentric man. He wrote “The Botanic Garden,” which Anna Seward pronounced to be “a string of poetic brilliants,” and in which book Horace Walpole noted a passage “the most sublime in any author or in any of the few languages with which I am acquainted.” He inserted in it, as his own work, some lines of Anna Seward’s,—which was ungallant, to say the least. Anna Seward’s mother repressed her early attempts at poetry, so for a time she contented ...
— Anna Seward - and Classic Lichfield • Stapleton Martin
... operations; look at the foam beneath the bows, or at the smooth, eddying, serpentine track left far behind. I also loved to gaze from this elevated position upon the broad ocean, bounded on every side by the clear and distant horizon a grand and sublime sight. And then I indulged in daydreams of the most pleasing description, and built gay and fantastic castles in the air, which my reason told me the next moment ...
— Jack in the Forecastle • John Sherburne Sleeper
... the sea was really nasty, the schooner wanted a lot of humouring, and it was clear from the glass that we were close to some dirt. We might be running out of it, or we might be running right crack into it. Well, there's always something sublime about a big deal like that; and it kind of raises a man in his own liking. We're a queer ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... very ancient and sublime writer concerning the defect of natural affection in the ostrich, may be well applied to the bird we are ...
— The Natural History of Selborne • Gilbert White
... Laughter, the Sublime, etc. While Beattie had given the preference to psychological and aesthetic questions, James Oswald (1772) appealed to common sense in matters of religion, describing it as an instinctive faculty of judgment concerning truth and falsehood. ...
— History Of Modern Philosophy - From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time • Richard Falckenberg


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