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Sublime   /səblˈaɪm/   Listen
Sublime

adjective
(compar. sublimer; superl. sublimest)
1.
Inspiring awe.  Synonyms: empyreal, empyrean.  "Empyrean aplomb" , "The sublime beauty of the night"
2.
Worthy of adoration or reverence.  Synonym: reverend.
3.
Lifted up or set high.
4.
Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style.  Synonyms: elevated, exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified.  "Argue in terms of high-flown ideals" , "A noble and lofty concept" , "A grand purpose"
verb
(past & past part. sublimed; pres. part. subliming)
1.
Vaporize and then condense right back again.  Synonym: sublimate.
2.
Change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting.  Synonym: sublimate.  "Some salts sublime when heated"



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"Sublime" Quotes from Famous Books



... left his servant. Trespolo, after having emptied a bottle of lacryma with which he had provided himself for any emergency, had looked long around him to choose a spot where the grass was especially high and thick, and had laid himself down to a sound sleep, murmuring as he did so, this sublime observation, "O laziness, but for the sin of Adam you would ...
— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... appetite will be good. Go, therefore, and give him your diamonds for breakfast. Anna Leopoldowna wants them not; she is already satiated with them!'—To the second I said: 'Go and announce your glorious victory to our sublime generalissimo. He is at his toilet, and as he every morning touches his noble cheeks with rouge, your new paint, prepared from the purple blood of the enemy, will doubtless be very welcome to him!'—'And as to what concerns your secret mission and your discovered conspiracy,' ...
— The Daughter of an Empress • Louise Muhlbach

... frivolous pretension that his street of the Calimara was the centre of our city. And here we are at the sign of 'Apollo and the Razor.' Apollo, you see, is bestowing the razor on the Triptolemus of our craft, the first reaper of beards, the sublime Anonimo, whose mysterious identity is indicated by ...
— Romola • George Eliot

... subdued habitues of sundry iron-barred cages in the Zoo. She is one of those dear confiding souls that we sometimes find out whose confidence in the omnipotent character of their husbands' ability is nothing if not charming and sublime. Upon her arrival in the wilds of Bengal she was fascinated with the loveliness of the country, and wanted her liege lord to take her into the depths of the jungle and show her a "real wild tiger." She had seen tigers in cages, but ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II. - From Teheran To Yokohama • Thomas Stevens

... contents of this remarkable work, we are impressed equally with its excellences and defects, with its sublime teachings and absurd contentions. Generally speaking, it may be said to be characterized by notions which are, at the same time, supremely attractive to the East and unintelligible and repellent ...
— India, Its Life and Thought • John P. Jones


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