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Definition of Sublimate

1. Noun. The product of vaporization of a solid.

2. Verb. Direct energy or urges into useful activities.

3. Adjective. Made pure.

4. Verb. Make more subtle or refined.

5. Verb. Remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation. "Purify the water"

6. Verb. Change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting. "Some salts sublime when heated"

7. Verb. Vaporize and then condense right back again.

Definition of Sublimate

1. v. t. 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. n. A product obtained by sublimation; hence, also, a purified product so obtained.

3. a. Brought into a state of vapor by heat, and again condensed as a solid.

Definition of Sublimate

1. Verb. (physics) To change state from a solid to a gas (or from a gas to a solid) without passing through the liquid state (''transitive'' or ''intransitive'') ¹

2. Verb. To purify or refine a substance through such a change of state. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive psychoanalysis) To modify the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct in a socially acceptable manner; to divert the energy of such an instinct into some acceptable activity. ¹

4. Verb. (archaic) To raise to a place of honor. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sublimate

1. [v -MATED, -MATING, -MATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sublimate

sublicensed sublicensee sublicensees sublicenses sublicensing sublicensor sublicensors sublieutenant sublieutenants subligation

sublight sublimability sublimable sublimableness sublimatable sublimated sublimates sublimating sublimation sublimation energy

sublimations sublimatories sublimatory sublime sublimed sublimely sublimeness sublimenesses sublimer

Literary usage of Sublimate

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

1. American Druggist (1885)
"Lister happened to use a dressing of sublimate gauze in the case of a wound where there was a very free hemorrhage after the operation. ..."

2. Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1856)
"CORROSIVE sublimate. THIS substance is usually known under the chemical name of BICHLORIDE OF MERCURY; but, according to some distinguished authorities, ..."

3. Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor, Edward Hartshorne (1853)
"The taste of corrosive sublimate is powerfully austere and metallic, so that no poisonous quantity of it can be easily swallowed without the individual ..."

4. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"It has sometimes been stated that corrosive sublimate suffers decomposition by exposure to ... The author found corrosive sublimate soluble in water at 57°, ..."

5. Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1856)
"To prevent any confusion from scientific chemical nomenclature, the old and popular name of Corrosive sublimate is here used. ..."

6. On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1875)
"CORROSIVE sublimate. Effects of External Application.—Cases of poisoning by the external application of corrosive sublimate are not very common. ..."

7. Elements of chemistry: theoretical and practical by William Allen Miller (1868)
"The action of the carbonates of the alkali-metals upon solutions of corrosive sublimate is peculiar. The addition of a solution of sublimate to a solution ..."

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