資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Sublimated \Sub"li*ma`ted\, a.
Refined by, or as by, sublimation; exalted; purified.
[Words] whose weight best suits a sublimated strain.
--Dryden.
Sublimate \Sub"li*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sublimated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Sublimating}.] [L. sublimatus, p. p. of
sublimare to raise, elevate, fr. sublimis high: cf. F.
sublimer. See {Sublime}, a., and cf. {Surlime}, v. t.]
1. To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on
cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to
sublimate sulphur or camphor.
2. To refine and exalt; to heighten; to elevate.
The precepts of Christianity are . . . so apt to
cleanse and sublimate the more gross and corrupt.
--Dr. H. More.
資料來源 : WordNet®
sublimated
adj : passing or having passed from the solid to the gaseous state
(or vice versa) without becoming liquid [syn: {sublimed}]