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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1598-1599
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Sublimely, adv. [Sublime adj. Cf. e.m.E. sublimely (1648).] With an ascending motion, upwards. — a1599 Rollock Wks. II 497.
When this way by boasting he hath beaten down the imaginations, reasonings, and cogitations that sublimely rose out of the mind
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