sublimate

From Middle English sublymate, from Latin sublīmātus, past participle of sublīmāre (“to raise, elevate”).

• (verb) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌblɪmeɪt/
• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌblɪmeɪt/, /ˈsʌblɪmət/

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sublimate (third-person singular simple present sublimates, present participle sublimating, simple past and past participle sublimated)

1. (transitive, intransitive, physics) To change state from a solid to a gas without passing through the liquid state. [from 16th c.]

   Synonym: sublime

2. (transitive, archaic) To purify or refine a substance through such a change of state.
3. (transitive, psychoanalysis) To modify the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct in a socially acceptable manner; to divert the energy of such an instinct into some acceptable activity.
   • 1969, Susan Sontag, “What’s Happening in America”, in Styles of Radical Will, Kindle edition, Penguin Modern Classics, published 2009, →ISBN, page 194:

     Foreigners extol the American "energy" […] Basically it is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism and acquisitiveness.

4. (archaic) To raise to a place of honor; to refine and exalt.

   Synonyms: heighten, elevate

   • 1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. […], London: […] R. Norton for T. Garthwait, […], OCLC 1114833197:

     The precepts of Christianity are […] so apt […] to cleanse and sublimate the more gross and corrupt.

sublimate (plural sublimates)

1. (chemistry) A product obtained by sublimation.

• freeze-dry

• multibase, umbalites

• IPA^(key): /subliˈmate/

sublimate

1. adverbial present passive participle of sublimar

sublimate

1. inflection of sublimare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

sublimate f pl

1. feminine plural of sublimato

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sub.liːˈmaː.te/, [s̠ʊblʲiːˈmäːt̪ɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sub.liˈma.te/, [subliˈmäːt̪e]

sublīmāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of sublīmō