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sublimated, ppl. a.|ˈsʌblɪmeɪtɪd|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. a. Produced by sublimation.
1605Timme Quersit. ii. v. 125 Then shal yee see the sublimated matter cleauing to the sides of the glasses. 1631Celestina i. 16 Shee made sublimated Mercury. 1800tr. Lagrange's Chem. I. 180 Half a part of sublimated sulphur. 1816J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 296 Sublimated metallic oxides.
†b. Mixed or compounded with corrosive sublimate (or arsenic). Obs.
1611Cotgr., Sublimé.. sublimated, or mixed with Arsenicke. 1631Massinger Believe as You List ii. i, A sublimated pill of mercurie.
2. fig.
a. Of persons and immaterial things: Exalted, elevated; raised to a high degree of purity or excellence; lofty, sublime.
1599Sandys St. Relig. (1605) H 2 b, Of a more refined & sublimated temper, then that their country conceits can satisfie. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. iv. 266 In words, whose weight best sute a sublimated straine. 1654Owen Saints' Persev. vii. 171 These latter, more refined, sublimated mercuriall wits. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 105. 1/1 The Refin'd, the Sublimated precepts of the Gospel. a1763Shenstone Economy i. 122 Ye tow'ring minds! ye sublimated souls! 1812Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 176 A sublimated impartiality, at which the world will laugh. 1823Lamb Guy Faux in Eliana (1867) 19 Swallowing the dregs of Loyola for the very quintessence of sublimated reason. 1876M. E. Braddon J. Haggard's Dau. xiii, Is this love, or only a sublimated friendship? 1901R. Garnett Ess. iii. 84 Poetry is neither exalted utility nor sublimated intellect.
†b. Puffed up, haughty. Obs.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 130 The Kings of Pegu [etc.] are so sublimated, that when an Ambassadour comes before them, they must doe it creeping.
c. Condensed, concentrated. rare.
1884Harper's Mag. Sept. 557/2 Paris is France, and Trouville a sublimated Paris.
3. Of physical things: Purified, refined, rarefied. rare.
a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iv. ii. 297 The æther, which is but a purer sublimated Air. 1860Maury Phys. Geog. i. 9 The sublimated air, diffusing itself by its mobility. 1862M. E. Braddon Lady Audley xix, A sublimated meat that could scarcely have grown upon any mundane sheep.
4. Psychoanalysis. Of a (sexual) instinct, feeling, etc.: that has been refined and made more socially acceptable.
1911Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. XXII. 436 If the transference is successful, be it a purely erotic feeling, or a sublimated one of respect.., there springs up the feeling of sympathy. 1923J. S. Huxley Ess. Biologist vii. 271 A sublimated instinct has more and higher values attached to its satisfaction than one unsublimated. 1951E. Jones Ess. in Applied Psychol. II. xiii. 320 A given sublimated interest..may represent one of the described stages. 1966G. Onn tr. Wyss's Depth Psychol. i. ii. 194 Sublimated ideas may also temporarily sink back into the unconscious, regress and become symbols of complexes. |
