sublime

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• Rhymes: -aɪm

From Middle English sublimen, borrowed from Old French sublimer, from Latin sublimō (“to raise on high; to sublimate (in Medieval Latin)”).

sublime (third-person singular simple present sublimes, present participle subliming, simple past and past participle sublimed)

1. (chemistry, physics, transitive, intransitive) To sublimate.
2. (transitive) To raise on high.
   • (Can we date this quote?) E. P. Whipple

     a soul sublimed by an idea above the region of vanity and conceit

3. (transitive) To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.

   Synonym: sublimate (archaic)

   • (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope

     The sun […] / Which not alone the southern wit sublimes, / But ripens spirits in cold, northern climes

4. (transitive) To dignify; to ennoble.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Jeremy Taylor

     An ordinary gift cannot sublime a person to a supernatural employment.

• sublimation

From Middle French sublime, from Latin sublīmis (“high”), from sub- (“up to, upwards”) + a root of uncertain affiliation often identified with Latin līmis, ablative singular of līmus (“oblique”) or līmen (“threshold, entrance, lintel”)

sublime (comparative sublimer, superlative sublimest)

1. Noble and majestic.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Thomas De Quincey

     the sublime Julian leader

2. Impressive and awe-inspiring, yet simple.

   sublime scenery

   a sublime deed

   • (Can we date this quote?) Matthew Prior

     Easy in words thy style, in sense sublime.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

     Know how sublime a thing it is / To suffer and be strong.

   • 1993, Richard Klein, Cigarettes are sublime, London: Picador, published 1995, →ISBN, page 62:

     Cigarettes are poison and they taste bad; they are not exactly beautiful, they are exactly sublime.

3. (obsolete) Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Dryden

     Sublime on these a tower of steel is reared.

4. (obsolete) Elevated by joy; elated.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     Their hearts were jocund and sublime, / Drunk with idolatry, drunk with wine.

5. Lofty of mien; haughty; proud.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Edmund Spenser

     countenance sublime and insolent

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     His fair, large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.

• subliminal

sublime (plural sublimes)

1. Something sublime.

• blueism

sublime

1. definite of sublim
2. plural of sublim

From Middle French sublime, borrowed from Latin sublimis.

• IPA^(key): /sy.blim/

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sublime (plural sublimes)

1. sublime, extraordinary

sublime

1. first-person singular present indicative of sublimer
2. third-person singular present indicative of sublimer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of sublimer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of sublimer
5. second-person singular imperative of sublimer

• “sublime” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

sublime

1. inflected form of sublim

Borrowed from Latin sublimis.

sublime (masculine and feminine plural sublimi)

1. sublime

• sublimità

sublīme

1. vocative masculine singular of sublīmus

• sublime in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sublime in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sublime in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to fly aloft; to be carried into the sky: sublimem or sublime (not in sublime or sublimiter) ferri, abire
    

Borrowed from Latin sublīmus.

sublime m or f (plural sublimes)

1. sublime (noble, majestic, magnificent, etc.)

• French: sublime

Borrowed from Latin sublīmis.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /su.ˈbli.mɪ/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /su.ˈbli.mɨ/
• Hyphenation: su‧bli‧me

sublime m or f (plural sublimes, comparable)

1. sublime

sublime m, f (plural sublimes)

1. sublime

sublime

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of sublimar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of sublimar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of sublimar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of sublimar

Borrowed from Latin sublimis.

sublime (plural sublimes)

1. sublime

sublime

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of sublimar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of sublimar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of sublimar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of sublimar.