v. [f. SUBLIME a. + -IZE. Cf. F. sublimiser.] trans. To make sublime; to elevate, exalt or refine.
1813. Hervey’s Medit., Mem. Author p. xvi. She thought herself so completely sublimized as to stand in no need of religious instruction.
1841. Hor. Smith, Moneyed Man, II. viii. 247. Solemn music and rich odours … sublimized devotion into ecstasy.
1880. ‘Ouida,’ Moths, i. Baptiste sublimised and apotheosised by niello buttons, old lace, and genius.
Hence Sublimized ppl. a., elevated, exalted; refined in quality.
1849. Benares Mag., July, II. 204. He declares … that the sublimized humanity of Feuerbach is almost as monstrous as Deity itself.
1896. Daily News, 21 April, 6/4. It would seldom occur to anyone to recognise an affinity between the sack coverings to be seen on huge bales at warehouses and the sublimised fabric as applied to the bodices of ladies’ dresses.
