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Webster 1913 Edition
Sublimation
Sub′li-maˊtion
,Noun.
[LL.
sublimatio
: cf. F. sublimation
.] 1.
(Chem.)
The act or process of subliming, or the state or result of being sublimed.
2.
The act of heightening or improving; exaltation; elevation; purification.
3.
That which is sublimed; the product of a purifying process.
Religion is the perfection, refinement, and
sublimation
of morality. South.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sublimation
SUBLIMATION
,Noun.
1.
The operation of bringing a solid substance into the state of vapor by heat, and condensing it again into a solid by cold. Sublimation bears the same relation to a solid, that distillation does to a liquid. Both processes purify the substances to which they are severally applied, by separating them from the fixed and grosser matters with which they are connected.2.
Exaltation; elevation; act of highthening or improving. Religion, the perfection, refinement and sublimation of morality.