Noun : the sublime in art. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : Switzerland has sublime scenery. ,a sublime dinner. ,sublime stupidity. From Dictionary.com.
Senator, his hair bristling out straight, his teeth set, his eye on fire, his whole expression sublimed by the ardor of battle. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
In which Captain Crowe is sublimed into the regions on. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves] Reference
If necessary to further purify it, it is again sublimed. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
In which Captain Crowe is sublimed into the regions on Astrology. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves] Reference
Take of citrine ointment 1-1/2 drm., sublimed sulphur 1 drm., lard. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Her whole face was refined and sublimed by the thought that was within her. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
The grandeur of the occasion had sublimed his usually rugged features into majesty. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
The monarch is sublimed entirely into, but is not identical with, the concept of "country.". From Wordnik.com. [The Discourse of Treason, Sedition, and Blasphemy in British Political Trials, 1794-1820] Reference
Love sublimed by a purity, by a true delicacy, that hardly any woman before her could boast of. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
About 100 lb. of sublimed sulphur is then added, and the agitation is continued for another two hours. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887] Reference
Notable among these was one with a long horizontal chimney, which could trap the arsenic and other minerals as they sublimed. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
I started using this journal just to post comments to other journals, primarily those of people who had sublimed from the Culture List. From Wordnik.com. [Choose Your Own Adventure] Reference
By dusk we reached the highest habitation in North America, the place where the sulphur used to be sublimed from the pumice brought down from the crater. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
The custom of introducing humorous epilogue, farce, and buffoonery, after the mind has been agitated, softened, or sublimed by tragic scenes, has been often objected to. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference
With sublimed mercury, that shall burst i 'the heat. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquary — Volume 02] Reference
Everything sublimed, and a true corrosive sublimate was formed. From Wordnik.com. [Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2] Reference
Jacobinism sublimed and exalted into most pure and perfect essence. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)] Reference
Michelangelo softened, sublimed, and harmonised his predecessor's qualities. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference
Christianity is sublimed into an exquisite thing called modern "spiritualism.". From Wordnik.com. [The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic] Reference
You observe, too, that nature passes into poetry; that form is sublimed into speech. From Wordnik.com. [A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare] Reference
He looked so tranquil, so sublimed by suffering, that I felt my self unworthy to be his teacher. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Clearings versus the Bush] Reference
The ethereal portions sublimed and formed the heavens; the heavier residuum became the present earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji] Reference
The grand is always more or less ideal, and the elevation of a moment is sublimed into the spirit of a life. From Wordnik.com. [Short Studies on Great Subjects] Reference
Tennyson gives in "In Memoriam" that interpretation of human life which comes when love is sublimed by death. From Wordnik.com. [The Chief End of Man] Reference
A considerable portion of the caffein is sublimed off during roasting, thus decreasing the amount in the bean. From Wordnik.com. [All About Coffee] Reference
All this was but symbol, requiring to be thrice sublimed in interpretation ere its true meaning can be grasped. From Wordnik.com. [AE in the Irish Theosophist] Reference
The light was a golden, hazy one, made up of myriads of sublimed memories, associations, judgments, conclusions. From Wordnik.com. [Foes] Reference
Through it all survived the truths that love is supreme, and that the law of life is goodness sublimed to holiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Chief End of Man] Reference
The most useful consist of five parts of sublimed sulphur, one of nitre, one of linseed meal, and two of lard or palm oil. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
This substance consisted of colorless crystals, which readily sublimed, melted at 115° to 117° C., and contained sulphur. From Wordnik.com. [All About Coffee] Reference
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