资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.