Etymology: [ s&-'blIm ] (verb.) 14th century. From Middle French sublime, from Latin sublīmis (“high”), from sub- (“up to", "upwards”) + uncertain, often identified with Latin līmis, ablative singular of līmus (“oblique”) or līmen (“threshold", "entrance", "lintel”)
Impressive and awe-inspiring, something sublime, Noble and majestic, To sublimate, lifted up or set high; "their hearts were jocund and sublime"- Milton, Emotions accompanied by feelings of dread or melancholy, quiet wonder, or that evoke the ideas of pain, danger, or terror, and moves one to a state of awe or exaltation Burke considered the Sublime to be the strongest emotion the mind is capable of producing, A sense of elevated beauty or grandeur; in this case produced by a landscape, The aesthetic feeling aroused by experiences too overwhelming in scale to be appreciated as beautiful by the senses The awe produced by standing on the brink of the Grand Canyon or the terror induced by witnessing a hurricane are properly said to be sublime Recommended Reading: Immanuel Kant, Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime, ed by John T Goldthwait (California, 1991) {at Amazon com}; Paul Crowther, The Kantian Sublime: From Morality to Art (Oxford, 1991) {at Amazon com}; and The Sublime Reader: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory, ed by Andrew Ashfield and Peter De Bolla (Cambridge, 1996) {at Amazon com} Also see OCP, IEP, Peter Suber, and noesis, the main characteristic of great poetry, Longinus held, was sublimity or high, grand, ennobling seriousness, to change from a solid to a gas without becoming liquid, and vice versa, Sublimation occurs when a substance changes directly from a solid to a gas without becoming liquid, A habit of appreciating nature as beyond human control, immense, powerful, awe-inspiring Associated with mountains, cataracts, the ocean, stars The standard sources are Longinus, On the Sublime, and Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, 1757, the turning of a solid directly into a gas without going through the intermediate liquid phase, e g the vapor of ``dry ice'' (the sublimation of frozen carbon dioxide), Change from the solid to the vapor phase without passing through the liquid phase, That which exists beyond words or beyond our understanding or our ability to understand, terrifying, sublimation occurs when a substance changes directly from a solid to a gas without becoming a liquid, (or sublimate), worthy of adoration or reverence, An aesthetic category with prominent aspects including an inclination for the terrible, tragic, monstrous, or anything that stimulates the imagination, The sublime is that which blows our minds, To volatilize from the solid state to a gas, Elevated by joy; elate, To raise on high, Lofty of mien; haughty; proud, That which is sublime; with the definite article A grand or lofty style in speaking or writing; a style that expresses lofty conceptions, That which is grand in nature or art, as distinguished from the merely beautiful, inspiring awe; "well-meaning ineptitude that rises to empyreal absurdity"- M S Dworkin; "empyrean aplomb"- Hamilton Basso; "the sublime beauty of the night", To subject to the process of sublimation; to heat, volatilize, and condense in crystals or powder; to distill off, and condense in solid form; hence, also, to purify, vaporize and then condense right back again change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting; "sublime iodine"; "some salts sublime when heated", which do not exhibit a liquid form on heating, except under increased pressure, To dignify; to ennoble, To pass off in vapor, with immediate condensation; specifically, to evaporate or volatilize from the solid state without apparent melting; said of those substances, like arsenic, benzoic acid, etc, as, sublime scenery; a sublime deed, To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify, emphasis You can use sublime to emphasize a quality that someone or something has, usually a quality that is undesirable or negative. The administration's sublime incompetence is probably temporary He displayed a sublime indifference to the distinction between right and wrong. + sublimely sub·lime·ly Mrs Trollope was sublimely uninterested in what she herself wore, approval If you describe something as sublime, you mean that it has a wonderful quality that affects you deeply. Sublime music floats on a scented summer breeze to the spot where you lie. You can refer to sublime things as the sublime. She elevated every rare small success to the sublime. + sublimely sub·lime·ly the most sublimely beautiful of all living things. If you describe something as going from the sublime to the ridiculous, you mean that it involves a change from something very good or serious to something silly or unimportant. At times the show veered from the sublime to the ridiculous, vaporize and then condense right back again, change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting; "sublime iodine"; "some salts sublime when heated", dignified; grand; solemn; stately; said of an impressive object in nature, of an action, of a discourse, of a work of art, of a spectacle, etc, exalted, noble, lofty; wonderful, splendid; inspiring wonder or awe, cause to be sublime, raise, lift up; sublimate, transform a solid directly into a gas or a gas directly into a solid (Chemistry), Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty, Distinguished by lofty or noble traits; eminent; said of persons, Awakening or expressing the emotion of awe, adoration, veneration, heroic resolve, etc, something exalted, noble; inspiring wonder or awe, past of sublime, Having been subjected to the process of sublimation; hence, also, purified, passing or having passed from the solid to the gaseous state (or vice versa) without becoming liquid, with sublimity; in a sublime manner; "awaking in me, sublimely unconscious, interest and energy for tackling these tasks", in a sublime manner, lofty, with sublimity; in a sublime manner; "awaking in me, sublimely unconscious, interest and energy for tackling these tasks, In a sublime manner, transcendently, comparative of sublime, plural of sublime, superlative of sublime, present participle of sublime, sublimity, quality of being sublime, grandeur, loftiness,
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Impressive and awe-inspiring
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something sublime
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Noble and majestic
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To sublimate
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lifted up or set high; "their hearts were jocund and sublime"- Milton
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Emotions accompanied by feelings of dread or melancholy, quiet wonder, or that evoke the ideas of pain, danger, or terror, and moves one to a state of awe or exaltation Burke considered the Sublime to be the strongest emotion the mind is capable of producing
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A sense of elevated beauty or grandeur; in this case produced by a landscape
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The aesthetic feeling aroused by experiences too overwhelming in scale to be appreciated as beautiful by the senses The awe produced by standing on the brink of the Grand Canyon or the terror induced by witnessing a hurricane are properly said to be sublime Recommended Reading: Immanuel Kant, Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime, ed by John T Goldthwait (California, 1991) {at Amazon com}; Paul Crowther, The Kantian Sublime: From Morality to Art (Oxford, 1991) {at Amazon com}; and The Sublime Reader: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory, ed by Andrew Ashfield and Peter De Bolla (Cambridge, 1996) {at Amazon com} Also see OCP, IEP, Peter Suber, and noesis
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the main characteristic of great poetry, Longinus held, was sublimity or high, grand, ennobling seriousness
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to change from a solid to a gas without becoming liquid, and vice versa
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Sublimation occurs when a substance changes directly from a solid to a gas without becoming liquid
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A habit of appreciating nature as beyond human control, immense, powerful, awe-inspiring Associated with mountains, cataracts, the ocean, stars The standard sources are Longinus, On the Sublime, and Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, 1757
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the turning of a solid directly into a gas without going through the intermediate liquid phase, e g the vapor of ``dry ice'' (the sublimation of frozen carbon dioxide)
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Change from the solid to the vapor phase without passing through the liquid phase
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That which exists beyond words or beyond our understanding or our ability to understand
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terrifying
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sublimation occurs when a substance changes directly from a solid to a gas without becoming a liquid
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(or sublimate)
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worthy of adoration or reverence
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An aesthetic category with prominent aspects including an inclination for the terrible, tragic, monstrous, or anything that stimulates the imagination
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The sublime is that which blows our minds
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To volatilize from the solid state to a gas
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Elevated by joy; elate
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To raise on high
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Lofty of mien; haughty; proud
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That which is sublime; with the definite article A grand or lofty style in speaking or writing; a style that expresses lofty conceptions
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That which is grand in nature or art, as distinguished from the merely beautiful
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inspiring awe; "well-meaning ineptitude that rises to empyreal absurdity"- M S Dworkin; "empyrean aplomb"- Hamilton Basso; "the sublime beauty of the night"
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To subject to the process of sublimation; to heat, volatilize, and condense in crystals or powder; to distill off, and condense in solid form; hence, also, to purify
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vaporize and then condense right back again change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting; "sublime iodine"; "some salts sublime when heated"
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which do not exhibit a liquid form on heating, except under increased pressure
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To dignify; to ennoble
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To pass off in vapor, with immediate condensation; specifically, to evaporate or volatilize from the solid state without apparent melting; said of those substances, like arsenic, benzoic acid, etc
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as, sublime scenery; a sublime deed
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To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify
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emphasis You can use sublime to emphasize a quality that someone or something has, usually a quality that is undesirable or negative. The administration's sublime incompetence is probably temporary He displayed a sublime indifference to the distinction between right and wrong. + sublimely sub·lime·ly Mrs Trollope was sublimely uninterested in what she herself wore
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approval If you describe something as sublime, you mean that it has a wonderful quality that affects you deeply. Sublime music floats on a scented summer breeze to the spot where you lie. You can refer to sublime things as the sublime. She elevated every rare small success to the sublime. + sublimely sub·lime·ly the most sublimely beautiful of all living things. If you describe something as going from the sublime to the ridiculous, you mean that it involves a change from something very good or serious to something silly or unimportant. At times the show veered from the sublime to the ridiculous
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vaporize and then condense right back again
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change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting; "sublime iodine"; "some salts sublime when heated"
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dignified; grand; solemn; stately; said of an impressive object in nature, of an action, of a discourse, of a work of art, of a spectacle, etc
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exalted, noble, lofty; wonderful, splendid; inspiring wonder or awe sıfat
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cause to be sublime, raise, lift up; sublimate, transform a solid directly into a gas or a gas directly into a solid (Chemistry) fiil
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Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty
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Distinguished by lofty or noble traits; eminent; said of persons
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Awakening or expressing the emotion of awe, adoration, veneration, heroic resolve, etc
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something exalted, noble; inspiring wonder or awe isim
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sublimed
past of sublime
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sublimed
Having been subjected to the process of sublimation; hence, also, purified
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sublimed
passing or having passed from the solid to the gaseous state (or vice versa) without becoming liquid
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sublimely
with sublimity; in a sublime manner; "awaking in me, sublimely unconscious, interest and energy for tackling these tasks"
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sublimely
in a sublime manner, lofty
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sublimely
with sublimity; in a sublime manner; "awaking in me, sublimely unconscious, interest and energy for tackling these tasks
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sublimely
In a sublime manner
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sublimely
transcendently sıfat
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sublimer
comparative of sublime
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sublimes
plural of sublime
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sublimest
superlative of sublime
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subliming
present participle of sublime
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the sublime
sublimity, quality of being sublime, grandeur, loftiness
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