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No need to subliminate your desires with mock anger anymore ….
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I'm drugging myself senseless tonight because at least then I'll be in catstate, where I can subliminate my submissive urges into feline ones for the most part and will be too doped-up to act on the ones that I can't morph.
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They were almost invariably heavy, rude, staring structures that reared themselves offensively in the public eye, and our first effort was to subliminate ---- "
Alice in Blunderland An Iridescent Dream John Kendrick Bangs 1892
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"I did not mean ee-liminate, which means to suppress, but subliminate, which means to sublimify or make sublime.
Alice in Blunderland An Iridescent Dream John Kendrick Bangs 1892
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"In view of his report to me, which I wrote myself and therefore know the provisions of, he states that subliminate is a perfectly just and proper word involving no infringement upon the rights of others, and in no wise impairing the value of innocent vested interests, and is therefore legal.
Alice in Blunderland An Iridescent Dream John Kendrick Bangs 1892
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Common Council had as yet passed favourably upon subliminate, either, "he added with some feeling.
Alice in Blunderland An Iridescent Dream John Kendrick Bangs 1892
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Council decided that subliminate was a constitutional word, "said the
Alice in Blunderland An Iridescent Dream John Kendrick Bangs 1892
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