Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SUB-LIME
SUB-LIME, v.t.
- To sublimate, – which see.
- To raise on high. – Denham.
- To exalt; to heighten; to improve. The sun / Which not alone the southern wit sublimes, / But ripens spirits in cold northern climes. – Pope.
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