Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Having been subjected to the process of sublimation; hence, also, purified.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
sublime .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective passing or having passed from the solid to the gaseous state (or vice versa) without becoming liquid
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Examples
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Senator, his hair bristling out straight, his teeth set, his eye on fire, his whole expression sublimed by the ardor of battle.
The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX James De Mille
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Besides, he adds, the amount of water from glacier melt is relatively insignificant, because most of the ice is "sublimed" — it evaporates immediately, bypassing the liquid phase.
Thompson, Hardy, Hemp and the Snows of Kilimanjaro « Climate Audit 2006
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Notable among these was one with a long horizontal chimney, which could trap the arsenic and other minerals as they sublimed.
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This "intelligence" caused an increase in security around the Capital, and finally precipitated into an extension of FISA, thereby insuring that even more of our freedoms have been sublimed in the name of national security.
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That bit of wood should then get dropped on the stony beach when its surrounding ice ablated/sublimed away, as it would do if the mechanism operates.
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Love sublimed by a purity, by a true delicacy, that hardly any woman before her could boast of.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Emerald Valley Unified had constructed it right before the budget sublimed like the synthetic snow at Christmastime Disneyland.
High School Confidential Jeremy Iversen 2006
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I started using this journal just to post comments to other journals, primarily those of people who had sublimed from the Culture List.
Choose Your Own Adventure coalescent 2005
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In which Captain Crowe is sublimed into the regions on Astrology.
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In which Captain Crowe is sublimed into the regions on Astrology.
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