Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUB-KING'DOM, n.

A subordinate kingdom. – Kirby.

SUB'LA-NATE, a. [L. sub and lana, wool.]

In botany, somewhat woolly.

SUB-LAP-SA'RI-AN, or SUB-LAPS'A-RY, a. [L. sub and lapsus, fall.]

Done after the apostasy of Adam. [See the noun.]

SUB-LAP-SA'RI-AN, n.

One who maintains the sublapsarian doctrine, that the sin of Adam's apostasy being imputed to all his posterity, God, in compassion, decreed to send his Son to rescue a great number from their lost state, and to accept his obedience and death on their account. The decree of reprobation, according to the sublapsarians, is nothing but a preterition or non-election of persons, whom God left as he found, involved in the guilt of Adam's transgression without any personal sin, when he withdrew some others as guilty as they. – Hammond. [Sublapsarian is opposed to supralapsarian.]

SUB-LA'TION, n. [L. sublatio.]

The act of taking or carrying away. – Bp. Hall.

SUB-LET', v.t. [sub and let.]

To underlet; to lease, as a lessee to another person. [Unusual.] – Smollett.

SUB-LE-VA'TION, n. [L. sublevo.]

The act of raising on high.

SUB-LI-BRA'RI-AN, n.

An under librarian.

SUB-LIEU-TEN'ANT, n.

An officer in the royal regiment of artillery and fusileers, in which are no ensigns, and who is the same as second lieutenant. – Eng.

SUB-LI-GA'TION, n. [L. subligo; sub and ligo, to bind.]

The act of binding underneath.

SUB-LIM-A-BLE, a. [from sublime.]

That may be sublimated; capable of being raised by heat into vapor, and again condensed by cold.

SUB-LIM-A-BLE-NESS, n.

The quality of being sublimable.

SUB'LI-MATE, a.

Brought into a state of vapor by heat, and again condensed, as solid substances.

SUB'LI-MATE, n.

The product of a sublimation. Corrosive sublimate is the protochlorid of mercury, a valuable medicine, which, in excessive doses, produces poisonous effects, like every other medicine. Blue sublimate, is a preparation of mercury with flowers of sulphur and sal ammoniacum; used in painting.

SUB'LI-MATE, v.t. [from sublime.]

1. To bring a solid substance, as camphor or sulphur, into the state of vapor by heat, which on cooling, returns again to the solid state. [See Sublimation.]
2. To refine and exalt; to highten; to elevate. And as his actions rose, so raise they still their vein, / In words whose weight suits a sublimated strain. – Dryden.

SUB'LI-MA-TED, pp.

Brought into a state of vapor by heat, as a solid substance; refined.

SUB'LI-MA-TING, ppr.

Converting into the state of vapor by heat, and condensing; as solid substances.

SUB-LI-MA'TION, n.

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 heightening or improving. Religion, the perfection, refinement and sublimation of morality. – South.

SUB-LIME, a. [L. sublimis; Fr. It. and Sp. sublime.]

1. High in place; exalted aloft. Sublime on these a tow'r of steel is rear'd. – Dryden.
2. High in excellence; exalted by nature; elevated. Can it be that souls sublime, / Return to visit our terrestrial clime? – Dryden.
3. High in style or sentiment; lofty; grand. Easy in style thy work, in sense sublime. – Prior.
4. Elevated by joy; as, sublime with expectation. – Milton.
5. Lofty of mien; elevated in manner. His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd / Absolute rule. – Milton.

SUB-LIME, n.

A grand or lofty style; a style that expresses lofty conceptions. The sublime rises from the nobleness of thoughts, the magnificence of words, or the harmonious and lively turn of the phrase. – Addison.

SUB-LIME, v.i.

To be brought or changed into a state of vapor by heat, and then condensed by cold, as a solid substance. Particles of antimony which will not sublime alone. – Newton.

SUB-LIME, v.t.

1. To sublimate, – which see.
2. To raise on high. – Denham.
3. To exalt; to heighten; to improve. The sun / Which not alone the southern wit sublimes, / But ripens spirits in cold northern climes. – Pope.

SUB-LIM-ED, pp.

Brought into a state of vapor by heat, and when cooled, changed to a solid state.

SUB-LIME-LY, adv.

With elevated conceptions; loftily; as, to express one's self sublimely. In English lays, and all sublimely great, / Thy Homer charms with all his ancient heat. – Parnell.

SUB-LIME-NESS, n.

Loftiness of style or sentiment; sublimity.