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Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty. Sublime on these a tower of steel is reared. Dryden.

Having been subjected to the process of sublimation; hence, also, purified. "Sublimed mercurie." Chaucer.

In a sublime manner.

The quality or state of being sublime; sublimity.

The act of making sublime, or state of being made sublime.

Existing in the mind, but below the surface or threshold of consciousness; that is, existing as feeling rather than as clear ideas.

The quality or state of being sublime (in any sense of the adjective).

The act of overfeeding, or making one take food in excess of the natural appetite for it.

To detach the limber from; as, to unlimber a gun.

Illimitable. Locke.

Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean.

Unruliness. [Obs.] "Breaking forth with rude unruliment." Spenser.

To climb up; to ascend. Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. Tennyson.

Hydraulic lime.

Whitewashed or plastered with lime. "White-limed walls." Shak.

a. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.

To draw away, as a limb or other part, from its ordinary position.

The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.

Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.

The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.