Definition of Sublimes

1. Noun. (plural of sublime) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sublimes

1. sublime [v] - See also: sublime

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sublimes

sublimated
sublimates
sublimating
sublimation
sublimation energy
sublimations
sublimatories
sublimatory
sublime
sublimed
sublimely
sublimeness
sublimenesses
sublimer
sublimers
sublimes (current term)
sublimest
sublimification
sublimifications
subliminal
subliminal message
subliminal messages
subliminally
subliming
sublimit
sublimities
sublimits
sublimity
subline
sublinear

Literary usage of Sublimes

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

1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1839)
"... but when quickly heated it sublimes unchanged. Iodine and Mercury form two compounds, and they maybe formed in two modes: first, by the mere trituration ..."

2. The Works of Tobias Smollett by Tobias George Smollett, William Ernest Henley (1899)
"CHAPTER XVII He is concerned in a dangerous Adventure with a certain Gardener—sublimes his Ideas, commences Gallant, and becomes acquainted with Miss Emily ..."

3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"It sublimes unchanged but very slowly at 100°/ 1-2 mm. (Ghosh, JCS Abstr. 1917, 112, (i.) SO). It is very soluble in water, almost insoluble in cold ..."

4. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1866)
"... alcohol und ether ; crystallises from alcohol in needles baring a faint yellow colour and golden lustre ; melts at about 205°, and sublimes in needles. ..."

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