The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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To raise on high. [Archaic]
A soul sublimed by an idea above the region of vanity and conceit.
--E. P. Whipple. (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.
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To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.
The sun . . . Which not alone the southern wit sublimes, But ripens spirits in cold, northern climes.
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To dignify; to ennoble.
An ordinary gift can not sublime a person to a supernatural employment.
--Jer. Taylor.
Sublimed \Sub*limed"\, a. (Chem.)
Having been subjected to the process of sublimation; hence,
also, purified. ``Sublimed mercurie.''
--Chaucer.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: sublime)
WordNet
adj. passing or having passed from the solid to the gaseous state (or vice versa) without becoming liquid [syn: sublimated]
Usage examples of "sublimed".
Neither had the Chelgrian-Puen, Chel’s own advanced force amongst the Sublimed, stepped in, which had been an even more pious hope.
The few real rather than imagined exceptions to this rule had consisted of little more than eccentricities: some of the Sublimed came back and removed their home planet, or wrote their names in nebulae or sculpted on some other vast scale, or set up curious monuments or left incomprehensible artifacts dotted about space or on planets, or returned in some bizarre form for a usually very brief and topologically limited appearance for what one could only imagine was some sort of ritual.
What had been remarkable, even alarming, was that the Sublimed had then maintained links with the majority part of their civilisation which had not moved on.
They are sentient, allegedly, the remnant of a species or civilisation which Sublimed more than a billion years ago.
Was there some link between the Sublimed of the two (or more, of course) species?
The few drones, other AIs and Minds that became persuaded of the merit of this course of action through the arguments of the Sublimers tended to do what any other machine did on such occasions and disappear in the direction of the nearest Sublimed Entity, though one or two stuck around in a pre-Sublimed state long enough to help the cause.
He must have sublimed five millimeters from the bore by emptying the magazine on a single trigger-pull.
The metal sublimed from powergun bores as they channeled the enormous energy downrange and redepos-ited on whatever was closest when the vapor cooled.
The soundproofing cones in the walls and ceiling sublimed and drifted as black cobwebs in fierce air currents.
The indium barrel had sublimed under heavy use until the bore was almost twice its normal diameter.
A brown vapor boiled off the surface of the molten rock, arose a few feet and sublimed almost at once in the vacuum to white powder which settled to the ground.
The beam was invisible in vacuum, but as nickel-iron sublimed away into space, it glared red through the scattering mist.