See sublime on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, →OCLC, Act II, scene v, signature [D3], recto:",
"text": "Sub[tle]. […] VVho are you?\n Ana[nias]. A faithfull Brother, if it pleaſe you.\n Sub. VVhat's that?\n A Lullianiſt? a Ripley? Filius artis?\n Can you ſublime, and dulcefie?",
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"ref": "1677, Nehemiah Grew, “[Several Lectures Read before the Royal Society.] Experiments in Consort of the Luctation Arising from the Affusion of Several Menstruums upon All Sorts of Bodies, Exhibited to the Royal Society, April 13. and June 1. 1676. Chapter II. What may be Observed of Minerals.”, in The Anatomy of Plants. […], [London]: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, published 1682, →OCLC, page 246:",
"text": "The aſhes either of Pit-Coal, or Sea-Coal, make no Efferveſcence vvith Alkalies or Acids. VVhence the ſaline Principle is altogether volatile, and ſublimed avvay by the fire.",
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"ref": "1670 July 28 (Gregorian calendar), “III. The Natural History of Niter, or, a Philosophical Discourse of the Nature, Generation, Place, and Artificial Extraction of Niter, with Its Vertues and Uses, by William Clarke. London, 1670. in 8°. [book review]”, in Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume V, number 61, London: […] T. N. for John Martyn […], printer to the Royal Society, →OCLC, page 2010:",
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"ref": "1591, P[hilip] S[idney], “[Sonnet 77]”, in Sir P. S. His Astrophel and Stella […], London: […] [John Danter] for Thomas Newman, →OCLC, page 23:",
"text": "Thoſe vvords vvhich doe ſublime the quinteſſence of bliſſe, […]",
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"ref": "1625 February 20 (date licensed; Gregorian calendar), I. [i.e., James] S[hirley], The Schoole of Complement. […], 2nd edition, London: […] I. H. for Francis Constable, […], published 1637, →OCLC, Act III, page 31:",
"text": "Miſtris Medulla, the Sunne of honour ſhine upon your hopes, till it ſublime you to a Ladiſhip: I vvill attend you preſently.",
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"ref": "1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], A Soveraigne Salve to Cure the Blind. […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons], →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-20, page 35:",
"text": "[W]e may finde […] that confirmation in grace, I say, by which free will is transfigured and sublimed into a state divine; […]",
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"ref": "1649, Jer[emy] Taylor, “Ad. Sect. 10. Considerations Touching the Vocation of Five Disciples, and of the First Miracle of Jesus Done at Cana in Galilee.”, in The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life According to the Christian Institution. […], London: […] R. N. for Francis Ash, […], →OCLC, 2nd part, page 8:",
"text": "[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.",
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"ref": "1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “Section III”, in Clerus Domini: or, A Discourse of the Divine Institution, Necessity, Sacrednesse, and Separation of the Office Ministerial. […], London: […] R[ichard] Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC, paragraph 11, page 17:",
"text": "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; […]",
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"ref": "1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC, page 7:",
"text": "[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; […]",
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"ref": "1753, [Tobias Smollett], “His Return to England, and Midnight Pilgrimage to Monimia’s Tomb”, in The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom. […], volume II, London: […] W. Johnston, […], →OCLC, page 239:",
"text": "Monimia hears not my complaints; her ſoul, ſublimed far, far above all ſublunary cares, enjoys that felicity, of vvhich ſhe was debarred on earth.",
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"ref": "1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, pages 273–274:",
"text": "[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.",
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"ref": "1814, Robert Southey, “Canto III”, in Roderick, the Last of the Goths, London: […] [F]or Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], by James Ballantyne and Co. […], →OCLC, page 45:",
"text": "Call it not\n Revenge; thus sanctified and thus sublimed,\n 'Tis duty, 'tis devotion.",
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"ref": "1820, William Hazlitt, “Lecture II. On the Dramatic Writers Contemporary with Shakespear, Lyly, Marlow, Heywood, Middleton, and Rowley.”, in Lectures Chiefly on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth. […], London: Stodart and Steuart, […]; Edinburgh: Bell and Bradfute, →OCLC, page 57:",
"text": "This character may be considered as a personification of the pride of will and eagerness of curiosity, sublimed beyond the reach of fear and remorse.",
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"ref": "1832, Robert Montgomery, “Book VI”, in The Messiah. […], London: John Turrill, […], →OCLC, page 243:",
"text": "That beauty, which the hues of thought create\n By thee enchanted,—slakes the mental fire\n That parches us within: and yearning dreams,\n And aspirations high as immortality,\n Thy power sublimeth with mysterious aid.",
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"ref": "1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 193:",
"text": "His very selfishness therefore is sublimed into public spirit: and this public spirit is stimulated to fierce enthusiasm by sympathy, by the desire of applause, and by the dread of infamy.",
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"ref": "1880, Thomas Hardy, “A Discovery Turns the Scale”, in The Trumpet-Major […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 94:",
"text": "[…] Bob's countenance was sublimed by his recent interview, like that of a priest just come from the penetralia of the temple.",
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"ref": "1632 June 4 (date licensed; Gregorian calendar), Phillip [i.e., Philip] Massinger, The City-Madam, a Comedie. […], London: […] Andrew Pennycuicke, […], published 1659, →OCLC, Act III, scene iii, page 45:",
"text": "I am ſublim'd! groſſe earth\n Supports me not. I vvalk on ayr!",
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"ref": "1669, John Denham, “Cato Major of Old Age. A Poem. The Third Part.”, in Poems and Translations, with The Sophy. […], 4th edition, London: […] T[homas] W[arren] for H[enry] Herringman and sold by Jacob Tonson […], and Thomas Bennet […], published 1703, →OCLC, page 34:",
"text": "But thou (dear Vine) forbid'ſt me to be long,\n Although thy Trunk be neither large, nor ſtrong,\n Nor can thy Head (not helpt) it ſelf ſublime,\n Yet like a Serpent, a tall Tree can climb, […]",
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"ref": "1857 July, [Edwin Percy Whipple], “Editor’s Table”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume XV, number LXXXVI, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 265, column 1:",
"text": "Formerly, to attack a community intrenched in laws, customs, institutions, and beliefs, required dauntless courage—a soul sublimed by an idea above the region of vanity and conceit—a character resolutely facing responsibilities it clearly realized, and especially a penetrating vision into the spirit and heart of the objects assailed.",
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"ref": "1640, John Parkinson, “Camphora. Camfire.”, in Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of a Large Extent: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, →OCLC, page 1575:",
"text": "[Camfire, i.e., camphor] ſeemeth plainely to be ſo made by art, being caſt as it vvere or ſublimed into broad round pans or diſhes and little above the thickneſſe of ones thumbe, […]",
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"ref": "1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC, page 24:",
"text": "Some the French VVriters, ſome our ovvn deſpiſe;\n The Ancients only, or the Moderns prize:\n […]\n Meanly they ſeek the Bleſſing to confine,\n And force that Sun but on a Part to Shine;\n VVhich not alone the Southern VVit ſublimes,\n But ripens Spirits in cold Northern Climes; […]",
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"ref": "1871, Charles Kingsley, “Monos”, in At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies. […], volume I, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, pages 181–182:",
"text": "[O]n the swamps of the Caroni the malarious fog hung motionless in long straight lines, waiting for the first blaze of sunrise to sublime it and its invisible poisons into the upper air, where it would be swept off, harmless, by the trade-wind which rushed along half a mile above our heads.",
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"Of language, style, or writing: expressing opinions in a grand way."
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],
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}
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{
"text": "a sublime deed",
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},
{
"ref": "1838 October, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Light of Stars”, in Voices of the Night, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, published 1839, →OCLC, page 13:",
"text": "Know how sublime a thing it is,\n To suffer and be strong.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1851 (date written), Matthew Bridges, “Song of the Seraphs [Crown Him with Many Crowns]”, in The Passion of Jesus, a Collection of Original Pieces Corresponding with the Five Sorrowful Mysteries in the Rosary of Our Blessed Lady, London, Dublin: Richardson and Son, […], published 1852, →OCLC, stanza 5, page 64:",
"text": "Crown Him the Lord of Years!\n The Potentate of Time,—\n Creator of the rolling spheres,\n Ineffably sublime!",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1991, Douglas Coupland, “Adventure without Risk is Disneyland”, in Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 159:",
"text": "You know, when I first met you, Claire, I thought that here might finally be a chance for me to be a class-act for once. To develop something sublime about myself. Well fuck sublime, Claire. I don't want dainty little moments of insight. I want everything and I want it now.",
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}
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],
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"person",
"person#Noun"
],
[
"actions",
"action#Noun"
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[
"qualities",
"quality#Noun"
],
[
"intellectually",
"intellectually"
],
[
"morally",
"morally"
],
[
"spiritually",
"spiritually"
],
[
"superior",
"superior#Adjective"
]
],
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"(figurative)",
"Of a person or their actions or qualities: intellectually, morally, or spiritually superior."
],
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"figuratively"
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"word": "ylivertainen"
}
]
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{
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{
"text": "the Sublime Porte",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"Of an office or status: very high; exalted; also, used as an honorific (often capitalized as Sublime) to refer to someone of high office or status, especially the Ottoman sultan; or to things associated with such a person."
],
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"office",
"office#Noun"
],
[
"status",
"status"
],
[
"exalted",
"exalted#Adjective"
],
[
"used",
"use#Verb"
],
[
"honorific",
"honorific#Noun"
],
[
"capitalize",
"capitalize#English"
],
[
"refer",
"refer#Verb"
],
[
"Ottoman",
"Ottoman#Adjective"
],
[
"sultan",
"sultan#English"
],
[
"associated",
"associated#Adjective"
]
],
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"(figurative)",
"Of an office or status: very high; exalted; also, used as an honorific (often capitalized as Sublime) to refer to someone of high office or status, especially the Ottoman sultan; or to things associated with such a person."
],
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}
]
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{
"ref": "1709, Mat[thew] Prior, “To Dr. [William] Sherlock, on His Practical Discourse Concerning Death”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 37:",
"text": "Thy even Thoughts vvith ſo much Plainneſs flovv,\n Their Senſe untutor'd Infancy may knovv;\n Yet to ſuch height is all that Plainneſs vvrought,\n VVit may admire, and letter'd Pride be taught:\n Eaſie in VVords thy Style, in Senſe ſublime,\n On its bleſt Steps each Age and Sex may riſe,\n 'Tis like the Ladder in the Patriarch's Dream,\n Its foot on Earth, its height beyond the Skies.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1993, Richard Klein, “Cigarettes are Sublime”, in Cigarettes are Sublime, Durham, N.C., London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, pages 62–63:",
"text": "Cigarettes are poison and they taste bad; they are not exactly beautiful, they are exactly sublime. The difference, to use the terms in which [Immanuel] Kant makes the distinction, means that smoking cigarettes gives rise to forms of aesthetic pleasure painfully at odds with the affect arising from the contemplation in tranquillity, say, of a well-wrought urn.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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],
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[
"consummate",
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],
[
"perfect",
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],
[
"excellent",
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[
"marvellous",
"marvellous"
],
[
"wonderful",
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"(figurative)",
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"figuratively"
]
},
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}
],
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{
"ref": "1842, Thomas De Quincey, “Cicero”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine:",
"text": "the sublime Julian leader",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"Of a person: dignified, majestic, noble."
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[
"majestic",
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[
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"figuratively",
"poetic"
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{
"ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 30:",
"text": "countenance sublime and insolent",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:",
"text": "His fair large Front and Eye ſublime declar'd\n Abſolute rule;",
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}
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"Of a person: haughty, proud."
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[
"proud",
"proud"
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],
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"(figurative)",
"(chiefly poetic, archaic) Of a person: haughty, proud."
],
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"figuratively",
"poetic"
]
},
{
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{
"text": "He is behaving like a sublime idiot.",
"type": "example"
}
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"Complete, downright, utter."
],
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[
"downright",
"downright#Adjective"
],
[
"utter",
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],
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"(figurative)",
"(informal) Complete, downright, utter."
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"word": "absolute"
},
{
"word": "out-and-out"
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"informal"
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{
"ref": "1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 96:",
"text": "While thir hearts were jocund and ſublime,\n Drunk with Idolatry, drunk with Wine,",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"Elevated by joy; elated."
],
"id": "en-sublime-en-adj-IAqgu-3O",
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[
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"elevate#Verb"
],
[
"joy",
"joy#Noun"
],
[
"elated",
"elated#Adjective"
]
],
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"(obsolete)",
"(figurative)",
"Elevated by joy; elated."
],
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"obsolete"
]
},
{
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"Of a substance: purified, refined; hence, of the highest quality."
],
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[
"substance",
"substance#Noun"
],
[
"purified",
"purified#Adjective"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete)",
"(figurative)",
"Of a substance: purified, refined; hence, of the highest quality."
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"obsolete"
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{
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{
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},
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},
{
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},
{
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},
{
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"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
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"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
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},
{
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"parents": [],
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},
{
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},
{
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
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],
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],
[
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"lift up"
],
[
"raised",
"raise#Verb"
]
],
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"(obsolete)",
"(poetic, postpositive) Of arms: lifted up, raised."
],
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"poetic",
"postpositional"
]
},
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"word": "profound"
}
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"name": "Anatomy",
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"Medicine",
"Sciences",
"Healthcare",
"All topics",
"Health",
"Fundamental",
"Body"
],
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},
{
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"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
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"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
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],
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[
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"anatomy"
],
[
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"muscle#Noun"
],
[
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"flexor digitorum superficialis"
],
[
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"forearm#Noun"
],
[
"lies",
"lie#Verb"
],
[
"flexor digitorum profundus",
"flexor digitorum profundus"
],
[
"superficial",
"superficial#Adjective"
]
],
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],
"tags": [
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],
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"medicine",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Pathology",
"orig": "en:Pathology",
"parents": [
"Disease",
"Medicine",
"Health",
"Biology",
"Healthcare",
"Body",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
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"Of breathing: very laboured."
],
"id": "en-sublime-en-adj-IDBGz1CI",
"links": [
[
"pathology",
"pathology"
],
[
"breathing",
"breathing#Noun"
],
[
"laboured",
"laboured#Adjective"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete)",
"(pathology) Of breathing: very laboured."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"topics": [
"medicine",
"pathology",
"sciences"
]
}
],
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"Received-Pronunciation"
]
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{
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}
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{
"_dis1": "8 2 1 2 2 20 8 1 24 18 0 1 1 7 6 1",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "veh",
"sense": "of a person: dignified, majestic, noble — see also dignified, majestic, noble",
"word": "վեհ"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 2 1 2 2 20 8 1 24 18 0 1 1 7 6 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "blagoroden",
"sense": "of a person: dignified, majestic, noble — see also dignified, majestic, noble",
"word": "благороден"
},
{
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vǎzvišen",
"sense": "of a person: dignified, majestic, noble — see also dignified, majestic, noble",
"word": "възвишен"
},
{
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "of a person: dignified, majestic, noble — see also dignified, majestic, noble",
"word": "sublim"
},
{
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "chónggāo",
"sense": "of a person: dignified, majestic, noble — see also dignified, majestic, noble",
"word": "崇高"
},
{
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of a person: dignified, majestic, noble — see also dignified, majestic, noble",
"word": "vznešený"
},
{
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"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "of a person: dignified, majestic, noble — see also dignified, majestic, noble",
"word": "sublim"
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"ref": "1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, →OCLC, Act II, scene v, signature [D3], recto:",
"text": "Sub[tle]. […] VVho are you?\n Ana[nias]. A faithfull Brother, if it pleaſe you.\n Sub. VVhat's that?\n A Lullianiſt? a Ripley? Filius artis?\n Can you ſublime, and dulcefie?",
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"ref": "1670 July 28 (Gregorian calendar), “III. The Natural History of Niter, or, a Philosophical Discourse of the Nature, Generation, Place, and Artificial Extraction of Niter, with Its Vertues and Uses, by William Clarke. London, 1670. in 8°. [book review]”, in Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume V, number 61, London: […] T. N. for John Martyn […], printer to the Royal Society, →OCLC, page 2010:",
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"ref": "1591, P[hilip] S[idney], “[Sonnet 77]”, in Sir P. S. His Astrophel and Stella […], London: […] [John Danter] for Thomas Newman, →OCLC, page 23:",
"text": "Thoſe vvords vvhich doe ſublime the quinteſſence of bliſſe, […]",
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"ref": "1625 February 20 (date licensed; Gregorian calendar), I. [i.e., James] S[hirley], The Schoole of Complement. […], 2nd edition, London: […] I. H. for Francis Constable, […], published 1637, →OCLC, Act III, page 31:",
"text": "Miſtris Medulla, the Sunne of honour ſhine upon your hopes, till it ſublime you to a Ladiſhip: I vvill attend you preſently.",
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"ref": "1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], A Soveraigne Salve to Cure the Blind. […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons], →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-20, page 35:",
"text": "[W]e may finde […] that confirmation in grace, I say, by which free will is transfigured and sublimed into a state divine; […]",
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"ref": "1649, Jer[emy] Taylor, “Ad. Sect. 10. Considerations Touching the Vocation of Five Disciples, and of the First Miracle of Jesus Done at Cana in Galilee.”, in The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life According to the Christian Institution. […], London: […] R. N. for Francis Ash, […], →OCLC, 2nd part, page 8:",
"text": "[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.",
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"ref": "1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “Section III”, in Clerus Domini: or, A Discourse of the Divine Institution, Necessity, Sacrednesse, and Separation of the Office Ministerial. […], London: […] R[ichard] Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC, paragraph 11, page 17:",
"text": "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; […]",
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"ref": "1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC, page 7:",
"text": "[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; […]",
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"ref": "1753, [Tobias Smollett], “His Return to England, and Midnight Pilgrimage to Monimia’s Tomb”, in The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom. […], volume II, London: […] W. Johnston, […], →OCLC, page 239:",
"text": "Monimia hears not my complaints; her ſoul, ſublimed far, far above all ſublunary cares, enjoys that felicity, of vvhich ſhe was debarred on earth.",
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"ref": "1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, pages 273–274:",
"text": "[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.",
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"ref": "1814, Robert Southey, “Canto III”, in Roderick, the Last of the Goths, London: […] [F]or Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], by James Ballantyne and Co. […], →OCLC, page 45:",
"text": "Call it not\n Revenge; thus sanctified and thus sublimed,\n 'Tis duty, 'tis devotion.",
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"ref": "1820, William Hazlitt, “Lecture II. On the Dramatic Writers Contemporary with Shakespear, Lyly, Marlow, Heywood, Middleton, and Rowley.”, in Lectures Chiefly on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth. […], London: Stodart and Steuart, […]; Edinburgh: Bell and Bradfute, →OCLC, page 57:",
"text": "This character may be considered as a personification of the pride of will and eagerness of curiosity, sublimed beyond the reach of fear and remorse.",
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"ref": "1832, Robert Montgomery, “Book VI”, in The Messiah. […], London: John Turrill, […], →OCLC, page 243:",
"text": "That beauty, which the hues of thought create\n By thee enchanted,—slakes the mental fire\n That parches us within: and yearning dreams,\n And aspirations high as immortality,\n Thy power sublimeth with mysterious aid.",
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"ref": "1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 193:",
"text": "His very selfishness therefore is sublimed into public spirit: and this public spirit is stimulated to fierce enthusiasm by sympathy, by the desire of applause, and by the dread of infamy.",
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"ref": "1880, Thomas Hardy, “A Discovery Turns the Scale”, in The Trumpet-Major […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 94:",
"text": "[…] Bob's countenance was sublimed by his recent interview, like that of a priest just come from the penetralia of the temple.",
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"ref": "1632 June 4 (date licensed; Gregorian calendar), Phillip [i.e., Philip] Massinger, The City-Madam, a Comedie. […], London: […] Andrew Pennycuicke, […], published 1659, →OCLC, Act III, scene iii, page 45:",
"text": "I am ſublim'd! groſſe earth\n Supports me not. I vvalk on ayr!",
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"text": "But thou (dear Vine) forbid'ſt me to be long,\n Although thy Trunk be neither large, nor ſtrong,\n Nor can thy Head (not helpt) it ſelf ſublime,\n Yet like a Serpent, a tall Tree can climb, […]",
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"ref": "1857 July, [Edwin Percy Whipple], “Editor’s Table”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume XV, number LXXXVI, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 265, column 1:",
"text": "Formerly, to attack a community intrenched in laws, customs, institutions, and beliefs, required dauntless courage—a soul sublimed by an idea above the region of vanity and conceit—a character resolutely facing responsibilities it clearly realized, and especially a penetrating vision into the spirit and heart of the objects assailed.",
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"ref": "1640, John Parkinson, “Camphora. Camfire.”, in Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of a Large Extent: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, →OCLC, page 1575:",
"text": "[Camfire, i.e., camphor] ſeemeth plainely to be ſo made by art, being caſt as it vvere or ſublimed into broad round pans or diſhes and little above the thickneſſe of ones thumbe, […]",
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"ref": "1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC, page 24:",
"text": "Some the French VVriters, ſome our ovvn deſpiſe;\n The Ancients only, or the Moderns prize:\n […]\n Meanly they ſeek the Bleſſing to confine,\n And force that Sun but on a Part to Shine;\n VVhich not alone the Southern VVit ſublimes,\n But ripens Spirits in cold Northern Climes; […]",
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"ref": "1871, Charles Kingsley, “Monos”, in At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies. […], volume I, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, pages 181–182:",
"text": "[O]n the swamps of the Caroni the malarious fog hung motionless in long straight lines, waiting for the first blaze of sunrise to sublime it and its invisible poisons into the upper air, where it would be swept off, harmless, by the trade-wind which rushed along half a mile above our heads.",
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"ref": "1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, signature B2, recto:",
"text": "Thou Vermine, haue I tane thee, out of dung,\n […]\n Sublim'd thee, and exalted thee, and fix'd thee\n I'the third region, the high ſtate of grace?",
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"ref": "1653 (indicated as 1654), Jeremy Taylor, “The Real Presence and Spiritual of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, Proved against the Doctrine of Transubstantiation. Section V. Subject Continued [Of the Words of Institution].”, in Reginald Heber, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. […], volume IX, London: Ogle, Duncan, and Co. […]; and Richard Priestley, […], published 1822, →OCLC, paragraph 10, page 476:",
"text": "[I]t [bread used for communion] is made 'sacramental and eucharistical,' and so it is sublimed to become the body of Christ. But it is natural food still, […]",
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"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 482–484:",
"text": "[F]lours and thir fruit\n Mans nouriſhment, by gradual ſcale ſublim'd\n To vital Spirits aſpire, […]",
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"text": "[T]hat ſpiritual Subſtance vvas analogous to Matter infinitely rarefied, refin'd or ſublim'd: Then, in the Geometrical Manner of conſidering ſuch reſpective Qualities and their Subject, Body infinitely rarefied, refin'd and ſublim'd, vvould at laſt terminat in limited Space or Expanſion; […]",
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"ref": "1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto II, stanza CLXXX, page 209:",
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"text": "Then diſtil it, and you ſhall have a Philoſophical ☿ [mercury], and what Sublimeth is the Sulphur, which keep apart.",
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"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "sublimar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of sublimar:",
"first/third-person singular present subjunctive"
],
"links": [
[
"sublimar",
"sublimar#Spanish"
]
],
"tags": [
"first-person",
"form-of",
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "sublimar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of sublimar:",
"third-person singular imperative"
],
"links": [
[
"sublimar",
"sublimar#Spanish"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"imperative",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/suˈblime/"
},
{
"ipa": "[suˈβ̞li.me]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ime"
}
],
"word": "sublime"
}
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