Meaning

Synonym of sublimate..

Definitions by Sense

1. Synonym of sublimate.
2. To raise (someone or an intangible thing) to a state of (especially moral or spiritual) excellence; to exalt.
3. To cause (someone or something) to ascend; to raise (someone or something) to a high position.
4. To cause (juice or sap) to rise in a plant.
5. Especially of the sun: to heat (something) and cause vapours, etc., to rise from it.
6. To purify (someone) from a bad influence or from sin.
7. To raise (someone) to a high office or status; to dignify, to exalt.
8. To raise (a physical thing) to a state of excellence; to improve.

Example Sentences

Thoſe vvords vvhich doe ſublime the quinteſſence of bliſſe, […]

Miſtris Medulla, the Sunne of honour ſhine upon your hopes, till it ſublime you to a Ladiſhip: I vvill attend you preſently.

[W]e may finde […] that confirmation in grace, I say, by which free will is transfigured and sublimed into a state divine; […]

[B]y his [Jesus's] preſence he alſo hallovved marriage, and made it honourable, not onely in a civill account, and the rites of Heraldry, but in a ſpirituall ſenſe, he having nevv ſublim'd it by making it a Sacramentall repreſentment of the union of Chriſt and his Spouſe the Church.

An extraordinary miniſtery needs an extraordinary and a miraculous gift; that is a miraculous calling and vocation and deſignation by the holy Ghoſt; but an ordinary gift cannot ſublime an ordinary perſon to a ſupernaturall imployment; […]

[T]hat Art being ſtrengthned by the knovvledge of things, may at length paſs into Nature by ſlovv degrees; and ſo in proceſs of time may be ſublim'd into a pure Genius vvhich is capable of chooſing judiciouſly vvhat is true; […]

Monimia hears not my complaints; her ſoul, ſublimed far, far above all ſublunary cares, enjoys that felicity, of vvhich ſhe was debarred on earth.

[H]e, the œconomiſt, diſpoſer, and ſhepherd of his ovvn kindred, ſubliming himſelf into an airy metaphyſician, vvas reſolved to knovv nothing of his flocks, but as men in general.

Word Forms

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• subliming
• sublimed
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• sublimest
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