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Sublime, v. [ME and e.m.E. sublyme (Chaucer) to convert substances by the action of heat, sublime (1557) to exalt (a person), OF sublimer (early 14th c. in Larousse) ‘élever moralement', f. as Sublimat n.] a. To convert (a solid substance) by the process of subliming. b. To render morally or spiritually sublime; to transmute into something higher or more excellent. c. p.p. = Sublime adj. —a. 16.. Alchem. MSS V (see Sublimatorie n.). —b. 1581-1623 James VI Poems I 112/3.
O thou that mightlie does toone My warbling holie harpe, And does sublime my poemes als That I thereon do carpe —c. c1590 James VI in c1590 Fowler I 18/8.
Virgill was amongst the Romans syne A spreit sublimed, a pillar of thair prayse