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sublimed, ppl. a.|səˈblaɪmd|
Also 4 sublymed, 5 sublimyd.
[f. sublime v. + -ed1.]
1. That has undergone the chemical process of sublimation; produced by sublimation; = sublimate a. 1.
sublimed mercury: mercury sublimate. sublimed arsenic, sublimed sulphur: flowers of arsenic, of sulphur.
c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. T. Preamb. 55 Oure Orpyment and sublymed Mercurie. a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 83 Arsenic sublimed is of white colour. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. xiv. i. 295 Orpiment, sublimed Mercurie, iron squames, Mercurie crude. 1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 147 Mercurie sublimed, is somewhat a coy, and stout fellow. 1658Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 926 Corrosives..(as Mercury sublimed, Vitriol, Orpiment, &c.). 1807T. Thomson Chem. (ed. 3) II. 26 It has no other smell than that of sublimed sulphur. 1811A. T. Thomson Lond. Disp. (1818) 535 Separate the sublimed matter from the scoriæ. 1842Parnell Chem. Anal. (1845) 26 Sublimed carbonate of ammonia, which is a sesquicarbonate. 1874Garrod & Baxter Mat. Med. 300 Collecting the sublimed acid by means of a cylinder of stiff paper inverted over the vessel.
b. transf. Refined. (Cf. sublime a. 8 c.)
1905Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Feb. 414 Using the very best sublimed olive oil.
†2. fig.
a. Elevated, exalted, sublime;
b. Purified, refined. Obs.
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 334 Exhalated smokes of sparkling, hote, inflamed, dispersed, sublimed aspires. 1610Donne Pseudo-martyr 30 Shall the persons of any men..be thought to be of so sublimed, and spirituall a nature, that [etc.]. 1610B. Jonson Alch. ii. ii, Where I spie A wealthy citizen, or rich lawyer, Haue a sublim'd pure wife. a1667Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year (1678) 355 The sobrieties of a graver or sublimed person. 1739[Boyse] Deity 151 Unmix'd his nature, and sublim'd his pow'rs. 1823Lamb Guy Faux in Eliana (1867) 20 Erostratus must have invented a more sublimed malice than the burning of one temple.
†c. High and mighty. Obs.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. viii. 39 In his sublimed Reply, hee snebs the King. |