Word Meanings - SUBLIMATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

elevate, fr. sublimis high: cf. F. sublimer. See Sublime, a., and cf. 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

Additional info about word: SUBLIMATE

elevate, fr. sublimis high: cf. F. sublimer. See Sublime, a., and cf. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUBLIMATE)

• Rarefy
• Expand
• lighten
• attenuate
• sublimate

Related words: (words related to SUBLIMATE)

• ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
  1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.
• RAREFY
  To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; to expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to; -- opposed to condense.
• SUBLIMATE
  elevate, fr. sublimis high: cf. F. sublimer. See Sublime, a., and cf. 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
• EXPANDER
  Anything which causes expansion esp. a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.
• ATTENUATE
  1. To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies. 2. To make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically:
• SUBLIMATED
  Refined by, or as by, sublimation; exalted; purified. whose weight best suits a sublimated strain. Dryden.
• EXPAND
  To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5. (more info) 1. To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight.
• EXPANDING
  That expands, or may be expanded; extending; spreading; enlarging. Expanding bit, Expanding drill , a bit or drill made adjustable for holes of various sizes; one which can be expanded in diameter while boring. -- Expanding pulley , a pulley so
• LIGHTEN
  To descend; to light.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• INLIGHTEN
  See ENLIGHTEN
• ENLIGHTENMENT
  Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
• ILLIGHTEN
  To enlighten.
• ENLIGHTEN
  1. To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth. His lightnings enlightened the world. Ps. xcvii. 4. 2. To make clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed the light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with increase
• ENLIGHTENER
  One who enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that which, communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind.