Meaning of SUBLIMATE
| Pronunciation: | | 'sublumeyt
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- [n] the product of vaporization of a solid
- [adj] made pure
- [v] vaporize and then condense right back again
- [v] change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting; "sublime iodine"; "some salts sublime when heated"
- [v] remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distiilation; "purify the water"
- [v] make more subtle or refined
- [v] direct energy or urges into useful activities
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| | Synonyms: | | distill, make pure, pure, purified, purify, rarefy, refined, sublime, subtilize |
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| | See Also: | | aerify, airt, alter, ameliorate, amend, better, bichloride of mercury, change, condense, corrosive sublimate, desexualise, desexualize, evaporate, gas, gasify, improve, meliorate, mercuric chloride, mercury chloride, purge, rectify, redirect, refine, resublime, vaporise, vaporize | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Sub"li*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sublimated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Sublimating}.] [L. sublimatus, p. p. of
sublimare to raise, elevate, fr. sublimis high: cf. F.
sublimer. See {Sublime}, a., and cf. {Surlime}, v. t.]
1. 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. 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.
\Sub"li*mate\, n. [LL. sublimatum.] (Chem.)
A product obtained by sublimation; hence, also, a purified
product so obtained.
{Corrosive sublimate}. (Chem.) See under {Corrosive}.
\Sub"li*mate\, a. [LL. sublimatus.]
Brought into a state of vapor by heat, and again condensed as
a solid.
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