sublimatedadj.

1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus Pref. sig. A.iii^v The Massy things, are ether such as rest in the bottom: or such as are caried vpwarde: and that .ii. waies, ether as pure bodies and substauces, as they which they cal sublimated, quick siluer. &c. or Sout for the remedies of the eies wyth Phisicions.

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke ii. v. 125 Then shal yee see the sublimated matter cleauing to the sides of the glasses.

1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd i. 16 Shee made sublimated Mercury.

1775 Ph. D. G. M. D. tr. Boullanger Vitrous Spar 6 The white colour of the sublimated matter..was stained with little spots of a yellow colour, which I imagined to be sulphur.

1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. I. 180 Half a part of sublimated sulphur.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 296 Sublimated metallic oxides.

1903 Beet Sugar Gaz. 20 Nov. 396/2 In order to obtain the iod-zinc solution, a measuring flask of 500 ccm. is filled with 80 gr. of twice sublimated iodine, 300 ccm. of distilled water, and 30 gr. of fine zinc grains.

1991 H. de Almeida Romantic Med. & John Keats xiii. 178 ‘Poison-flour’ was a common name at this time for sublimated arsenic trioxide.

2006 Science 28 Apr. 535/1 Active comets are recognizable when near the Sun from the surrounding atmosphere of sublimated ices and dust particles.

1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. f. 39 Medicines whiche take awaye the Fistula are these. viz. Trochi. Asphedi Helleborum. Auripig. rub. sublimatum, or the sublimated water aforesayd, Arsenicum, or Trochi. de Arsenico.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sublimé,..sublimated, or mixed with Arsenicke.

a1640 P. Massinger Beleeue as you List (1976) ii. i. 101 A sublimated pill of mercurie for sugar to their wine.

1840 R. Harlan tr. J. N. Gannal Hist. Embalming vi. 124 Finally, after two months sojourn in the sublimated bath [Fr. bain de sublimé], the body being withdrawn during a hot and dry season, became desiccated in a few days.

1883 L. S. Pilcher Treatm. Wounds x. 193 It may be used, like other antiseptic powders, to fill wound cavities, being covered with sublimated gauze over which a gauze bandage is fastened.

1922 A. Caillé Postgraduate Med. (new ed.) 155 Dishes should be rinsed in soda solution, 5 per cent, and a sublimated solution (1 to 1,000) before returning them to the kitchen.

2010 Jrnl. Vascular Surg. 51 1570/2 A strip of acid sublimated gauze was left in the sac rather than a drain.

1884 Harper's Mag. Sept. 557/2 Paris is France, and Trouville a sublimated Paris.

1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures xxiii. 159 Our Sauiours blessed disciples were but grossa capita to our subtiliated, sublimated new spirits of the Sorbon.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion iv. 61 In words, whose weight best sute a sublimated straine.

1654 J. Owen Doctr. Saints Perseverance vii. 171 These latter, more refined, sublimated mercuriall wits.

1709 Brit. Apollo 9–11 Feb. The Refin'd, the Sublimated precepts of the Gospel.

1732 J. Hervey Remarks Minute Philosopher 25 All the Answers to those Objections, are so abstruse, so thin-spun, so wire-drawn, and so sublimated, that..they are as unintelligible as the Sibyl's Book.

a1763 W. Shenstone Oeconomy i, in Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 289 Ye tow'ring minds! ye sublimated souls!

1812 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 176 A sublimated impartiality, at which the world will laugh.

1876 M. E. Braddon Joshua Haggard's Daughter II. i. 6 Is this love, or only a sublimated friendship?

1901 R. Garnett Ess. iii. 84 Poetry is neither exalted utility nor sublimated intellect.

1946 H. W. Percival Thinking & Destiny x. 649 His belief is..in a personal God as a magnified and sublimated human being.

1994 Lay Witness Sept. 9/2 There was, nonetheless, a sublimated kind of gentillesse féminine which these brides of Christ, the nuns, manifested.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 130 The Kings of Pegu..are so sublimated, that when an Ambassadour comes before them, they must doe it creeping.