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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1628-1631
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Sublime, adj. [e.m.E. sublime (1586), MF sublime (c1460 in Larousse), L. sublímis.] Exalted, elevated; of the highest degree of seriousness. —1628 Mure Doomesday 533.
How more sublime the object bee … Joyes of a more supreme degrie The intellect conceaues 1631 Justiciary Cases I 156.
In the xix chapter of hir fyft parliament … haifing consideratioun of perjurie and in that sublime poynt quhair ane man sould nocht marie tua wyfes nor ane woman to haif tua husbandis leaveand togidder, quhilk is the hiest poynt of perjurie the heart of man can think of
