1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 223 Wax, liquors, gums, rosins, boones, marowes, and other abounding with fat humors may oyl be goten by sublimating.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sublimation, a sublimating, raising, or lifting vp.

1660 T. Forde Virtus Rediviva 32 Some of your Academick Flames, may contribute much to the sublimating of my setled fancy.

1726 D. Defoe Gen. Hist. Discov. iv. xx. 266 Refining, Separating, Purging, Sublimating, and..Transmutation, all had their rise and invention in these Ages.

1796 R. Heron tr. A.-F. de Fourcroy Elements Chem. & Nat. Hist. I. ix. viii. 67 The action of fire upon it..may be either nothing at all, or fusing, vitrifying, sublimating, decomposing, &c.

1829 W. Cobbett Advice to Young Men v There has been a general sublimating going on for many years. Not to put the word Esquire before the name of almost any man..is almost an affront.

1873 W. H. H. Murray Park-Street Pulpit 2nd Ser. 323 That sublimating of the hopes and desires that have been sordid and base, which makes a person a marvel to himself.

1913 E. Jones Papers on Psycho-anal. xx. 416 (heading) The value of sublimating processes for education and re-education.

2002 M. J. Madou Fund. Microfabrication iii. 135/1 Evaporation is based on the boiling off (or sublimating) of a heated material onto a substrate in a vacuum.

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. vii. 110 An eye for an Alchimist, a Sublimating, Transmuting, and Cohobating eye.

1775 tr. Valuable Secrets Arts & Trades v. 83 Give it the sublimating fire for twelve hours.

1840 E. A. Poe Balloon Hoax in Wks. (1865) I. 97 I can conceive nothing more sublimating than the strange peril and novelty of an adventure such as this.

1867 Contemp. Rev. 5 161 Art permits not the protrusion of purely individual regards through that sublimating medium of the imagination in which lies its true charm.

1917 Internat. Clinics 27th Ser. 1 111 Often enough,..the sublimating effects of encouragement from those who look upon the problem from a different standpoint, will start suppressed forces into normal action.

2008 J. Gorak in W. van Peer Quality of Lit. i. iii. 66 Wallace maintains the sublimating, upperclass habits of a genre his novel initially promised to subvert.