SUBLIMATE

v. n. a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.

2.
v.

To refine and exalt; to heighten; to elevate. The precepts of Christianity are . . . so apt to cleanse and sublimate the more gross and corrupt. Dr. H. More.

3.
n.

A product obtained by sublimation; hence, also, a purified product so obtained. Corrosive sublimate. (Chem.) See under Corrosive.

4.
a.

Brought into a state of vapor by heat, and again condensed as a solid.

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