sublime
See also: sublimé
English
Pronunciation
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪm
Etymology 1
From Middle English sublimen, borrowed from Old French sublimer, from Latin sublimō (“to raise on high; to sublimate (in Medieval Latin)”).
Verb
sublime (third-person singular simple present sublimes, present participle subliming, simple past and past participle sublimed)
- (chemistry, physics, transitive, intransitive) To sublimate.
- (transitive) To raise on high.
- (Can we date this quote?) E. P. Whipple
- a soul sublimed by an idea above the region of vanity and conceit
- (Can we date this quote?) E. P. Whipple
- (transitive) To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.
- Synonym: sublimate (archaic)
- (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope
- The sun […] / Which not alone the southern wit sublimes, / But ripens spirits in cold, northern climes
- (transitive) To dignify; to ennoble.
- (Can we date this quote?) Jeremy Taylor
- An ordinary gift cannot sublime a person to a supernatural employment.
- (Can we date this quote?) Jeremy Taylor
Related terms
Translations
to sublimate
Etymology 2
From Middle French sublime, from Latin sublīmis (“high”), from sub- (“up to, upwards”) + a root of uncertain affiliation often identified with Latin līmis, ablative singular of līmus (“oblique”) or līmen (“threshold, entrance, lintel”)
Adjective
sublime (comparative sublimer, superlative sublimest)
- Noble and majestic.
- (Can we date this quote?) Thomas De Quincey
- the sublime Julian leader
- (Can we date this quote?) Thomas De Quincey
- Impressive and awe-inspiring, yet simple.
- sublime scenery
- a sublime deed
- (Can we date this quote?) Matthew Prior
- Easy in words thy style, in sense sublime.
- (Can we date this quote?) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Know how sublime a thing it is / To suffer and be strong.
- 1993, Richard Klein, Cigarettes are sublime, London: Picador, published 1995, →ISBN, page 62:
- Cigarettes are poison and they taste bad; they are not exactly beautiful, they are exactly sublime.
- (obsolete) Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.
- (Can we date this quote?) Dryden
- Sublime on these a tower of steel is reared.
- (Can we date this quote?) Dryden
- (obsolete) Elevated by joy; elated.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- Their hearts were jocund and sublime, / Drunk with idolatry, drunk with wine.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- Lofty of mien; haughty; proud.
- (Can we date this quote?) Edmund Spenser
- countenance sublime and insolent
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- His fair, large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.
- (Can we date this quote?) Edmund Spenser
Related terms
Translations
noble and majestic
impressive and awe-inspiring
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Translations
French
Etymology
From Middle French sublime, borrowed from Latin sublimis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sy.blim/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -im
Verb
sublime
Further reading
- “sublime” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German
Italian
Latin
References
- sublime in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sublime in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sublime in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to fly aloft; to be carried into the sky: sublimem or sublime (not in sublime or sublimiter) ferri, abire
- (ambiguous) to fly aloft; to be carried into the sky: sublimem or sublime (not in sublime or sublimiter) ferri, abire
Middle French
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Verb
sublime
Spanish
Verb
sublime
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of sublimar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of sublimar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of sublimar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of sublimar.
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