sublime
English
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Etymology 1
From Middle English sublimen, borrowed from Old French sublimer, from Latin sublimō (“to raise on high; to sublimate (in Medieval Latin)”).
Verb
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- (chemistry, physics, transitive, intransitive) To sublimate.
- (transitive) To raise on high.
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- a soul sublimed by an idea above the region of vanity and conceit
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- (transitive) To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.
- Synonym: (archaic) sublimate
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- The sun […] / Which not alone the southern wit sublimes, / But ripens spirits in cold, northern climes
- (transitive) To dignify; to ennoble.
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- An ordinary gift cannot sublime a person to a supernatural employment.
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Etymology 2
From Middle French sublime, from Latin sublīmis (“high”), from sub- (“up to, upwards”) + a root of uncertain affiliation often identified with Latin līmis, ablative singular of līmus (“oblique”) or līmen (“threshold, entrance, lintel”)
Adjective
sublime (comparative sublimer, superlative sublimest)
- Noble and majestic.
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- the sublime Julian leader
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- Impressive and awe-inspiring, yet simple.
- sublime scenery
- a sublime deed
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- Easy in words thy style, in sense sublime.
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- Know how sublime a thing it is / To suffer and be strong.
- 1897, John Munro, chapter VI, in A Trip to Venus:
- We had entered the clouds. For half-an-hour we were muffled in a cold, damp mist, and total darkness, and had begun to think of going indoors when, all at once, the car burst into the pure and starlit region of the upper air. A cry of joyous admiration escaped from us all. The spectacle before us was indeed sublime.
- 1993, Richard Klein, Cigarettes are sublime, London: Picador, published 1995, →ISBN, page 62:
- Cigarettes are poison and they taste bad; they are not exactly beautiful, they are exactly sublime.
- (obsolete) Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.
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- Sublime on these a tower of steel is reared.
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- (obsolete) Elevated by joy; elated.
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- Their hearts were jocund and sublime, / Drunk with idolatry, drunk with wine.
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- Lofty of mien; haughty; proud.
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Noun
sublime (plural sublimes)
- Something sublime.
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Danish
Adjective
sublime
French
Etymology
From Middle French sublime, borrowed from Latin sublimis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
sublime (plural sublimes)
Verb
sublime
- inflection of sublimer:
Further reading
- “sublime”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Adjective
sublime
- inflection of sublim:
Italian
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Adjective
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Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) sublīme
References
- “sublime”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sublime”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sublime in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to fly aloft; to be carried into the sky: sublimem or sublime (not in sublime or sublimiter) ferri, abire
- (ambiguous) to fly aloft; to be carried into the sky: sublimem or sublime (not in sublime or sublimiter) ferri, abire
Middle French
Etymology
Adjective
sublime m or f (plural sublimes)
- sublime (noble, majestic, magnificent, etc.)
Descendants
- French: sublime
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: su‧bli‧me
Adjective
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Noun
sublime m or f (plural sublimes)
Verb
sublime
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Spanish
Etymology
Adjective
sublime m or f (masculine and feminine plural sublimes)
Verb
sublime
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of sublimar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of sublimar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of sublimar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of sublimar.
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