ppl. a. Also 4 sublymed, 5 sublimyd. [f. SUBLIME v. + -ED1.]
1. That has undergone the chemical process of sublimation; produced by sublimation; = SUBLIMATE a. 1.
Sublimed mercury: mercury sublimate. Sublimed arsenic, sulphur: flowers of arsenic, of sulphur.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Can. Yeom. T., Preamb. 55. Oure Orpyment and sublymed Mercurie.
a. 1425. trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc. 83. Arsenic sublimed is of white colour.
1584. R. Scot, Discov. Witchcr., XIV. i. 354. Orpiment, sublimed Mercurie, iron squames, Mercurie crude.
1593. G. Harvey, Pierce’s Super., Wks. (Grosart), II. 147. Mercurie sublimed, is somewhat a coy, and stout fellow.
1658. Rowland, trans. Moufet’s Theat. Ins., 926. Corrosives … (as Mercury sublimed, Vitriol, Orpiment, &c.).
1807. T. Thomson, Chem. (ed. 3), II. 26. It has no other smell than that of sublimed sulphur.
1811. A. T. Thomson, Lond. Disp. (1818), 535. Separate the sublimed matter from the scoriæ.
1842. Parnell, Chem. Anal. (1845), 26. Sublimed carbonate of ammonia, which is a sesquicarbonate.
1874. Garrod & Baxter, Mat. Med., 300. Collecting the sublimed acid by means of a cylinder of stiff paper inverted over the vessel.
b. transf. Refined. (Cf. SUBLIME a. 8 c.)
1905. Brit. Med. Jrnl., 25 Feb., 414. Using the very best sublimed olive oil.
† 2. fig. a. Elevated, exalted, sublime; b. Purified, refined. Obs.
1600. W. Watson, Decacordon (1602), 334. Exhalated smokes of sparkling, hote, inflamed, dispersed, sublimed aspires.
1610. Donne, Pseudo-martyr, 30. Shall the persons of any men … be thought to be of so sublimed, and spirituall a nature, that [etc.].
1610. B. Jonson, Alch., II. ii. Where I spie A wealthy citizen, or rich lawyer, Haue a sublim’d pure wife.
a. 1667. Jer. Taylor, Serm. for Year (1678), 355. The sobrieties of a graver or sublimed person.
1739. [Boyse], Deity, 151. Unmix’d his nature, and sublim’d his pow’rs.
1823. Lamb, Guy Faux, in Eliana (1867), 20. Erostratus must have invented a more sublimed malice than the burning of one temple.
† c. High and mighty. Obs.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. viii. 39. In his sublimed Reply, hee snebs the King.
