Definition of Sublate

1. v. t. To take or carry away; to remove.

Definition of Sublate

1. Verb. (transitive logic) To negate, deny or contradict. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To take or carry away; to remove. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sublate

1. to cancel [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES] - See also: cancel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sublate

subkingdom Parazoa
subkingdoms
sublacune
sublacustric
sublacustrine
sublageniform
sublamina
sublaminal
sublandlord
sublandlords
sublanguage
sublanguages
sublapsarian
sublapsarianism
sublapsarians
sublate (current term)
sublated
sublateral
sublates
sublating
sublation
sublations
sublative
sublative case
sublattice
sublattices
sublayer
sublayers
subleading
sublease

Literary usage of Sublate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Symbolic Logic by John Venn (1881)
"His expression for the proposition in question is best put into words as, "posit 8, and we sublate P". It turns entirely upon the representation of ..."

2. Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform by William Hamilton, Robert Turnbull (1853)
"Hence:—To posit the Genus, is not to posit the Species and Individual; but to sublate the Genus, is to sublate the Species and Individual. ..."

3. Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform by William Hamilton, Robert Turnbull (1855)
"Hence: —To posit the Individual, is to posit the Species and Genus; but to sublate the Individual, is not to sublate the Species and Genus.—[See Table, p. ..."

4. Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform by William Hamilton, Robert Turnbull (1858)
"Hence :—To posit the Genus, is not to posit the Species and Individual; but to sublate the Genus, is to sublate the Species and Individual. ..."

5. Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform by William Hamilton (1861)
"Hence: —To posit the Individual, is to posit the Species and Genus; but to sublate the Individual, is not to sublate the Species and Genus.—[See Table, p. ..."

6. Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform by William Hamilton, Robert Turnbull (1853)
"Hence: —To posit the Individual, is to posit the Species and Genus; but to sublate the Individual, is not to sublate the Species and Genus.—[See Table, p. ..."

7. A Treatise on Logic: Or, The Laws of Pure Thought; Comprising Both the by Francis Bowen (1895)
"Hence, to posit A is to sublate E " E " " A AVr — To change the ... Hence, to sublate I is to posit OO " "I OF CONVERSION. ..."

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