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 Sub·li·mate v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sublimated p. pr. & vb. n. Sublimating.]
 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.

 Sub·li·ma·ted a. Refined by, or as by, sublimation; exalted; purified.
    [Words] whose weight best suits a sublimated strain.   --Dryden.
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 sublimated
      adj : passing or having passed from the solid to the gaseous state
            (or vice versa) without becoming liquid [syn: sublimed]