Obs. Also 5 -lymate, 6 -lemmat, 5, 7 -limat. [ad. L. sublīmātus, pa. pple. of sublīmāre to SUBLIME.]
A. pa. pple. 1. Raised, elevated, exalted.
1460. Capgrave, Chron. (Rolls), 93. This man with sedicious knytis was sublimat in the empire.
1492. Ryman, Poems, vi. 7, in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr., LXXXIX. 175. O spowse of Criste inmaculate, Aboue alle aungellis sublimate.
1603. Harsnet, Pop. Impost., 111. According as they are improued, sublimate, and aduaunced by the authority of holy church of Rome.
1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., Notes 15. Some of them were sublimat farre above earthly conceit.
1646. Saltmarsh, Some Drops, ii. 95. This is Perfection and Prelacy sublimate.
2. Sublimated, distilled.
1471. Ripley, Comp. Alch., III. xiv. in Ashm. (1652), 142. Thy Water must be seven tymes Sublymate.
B. ppl. a. 1. Mercury sublimate (occas. sublimate mercury): = SUBLIMATE sb. 2.
1562. Bullein, Bulwarke, Bk. Simples, 74. With this Quickesiluer and Sal Armoniake, is made Marcurie sublemmat.
1610. B. Jonson, Alch., II. i. Mercury sublimate, That keepes the whitenesse, hardnesse, and the biting.
1697. Headrich, Arcana Philos., 118. Sublimate Mercury.
1770. Phil. Trans., LX. 187. A composition of sublimate mercury,… will prevent insects … from destroying the plumage.
1799. G. Smith, Laboratory, I. 98. Ground and mixed with sublimate mercury.
2. Refined, purified; elevated, sublime.
1607. R. C[arew], trans. Estienne’s World of Wonders, Ep. Ded. Others (of a more refined and sublimate temper) can sauour nothing but that which exceeds the vulgar capacitie. Ibid., 136. A most sublimate subtiltie.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 366. Offering her selfe more sublimate and pure, in the sacred name … of Religion.
1648. J. Beaumont, Psyche, X. lxv. So sublimate and so refining was That Fire, that all the Gold it turn’d to Dross.
1667. Glanvill, Van. Dogm., 124. The corporeal Machine, which even on the most sublimate Intellectuals is dangerously influential.
1676. Hale, Contempl., II. Medit. Lord’s Pr., 2. The most Exact Sublimate Wits inscribed their Altar, To the Unknown God.
1720. Welton, Suffer. Son of God, I. x. 231. A Love Sublimate and Refined.
