Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.