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a1729 E. Taylor Metrical Hist. Christianity (1962) 163 Spirits fly like fire-Balls sulphurizde And with an hellish blast so sublimisde.

1801 Edinb. Mag. Sept. 167/2 To have..the gross stagnations of intellect and moral perception purged away by the contemplation of all that is fitted to refine and sublimize the mind.

1841 H. Smith Moneyed Man II. viii. 247 Solemn music and rich odours..sublimized devotion into ecstasy.

1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. i. 2 Baptiste sublimised and apotheosised by niello buttons, old lace, and genius.

1908 M. Fleugel Humanity, Benevolence Charity Legislation of Pentateuch & Talmud 102 That Law is..aiming at man and world as they are, aspiring at improving them, not sublimizing and angelizing them.

1997 A. T. Peperzak Beyond iii. 21 All idols must be destroyed, not sublimized.

1827 H. Smith Reuben Apsley III. viii. 341 This sublimised state was evanescent,..the intellectual darkness returned.

1896 Daily News 21 Apr. 6/4 It would seldom occur to anyone to recognise an affinity between the sack coverings to be seen on huge bales at warehouses and the sublimised fabric as applied to the bodices of ladies' dresses.

1936 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 30 Aug. b-5/8 A boisterous, bawdy fellow, with..a sense of drunken poetry about him, a sort of sublimized Veronese card.

2006 A. T. Peperzak Thinking iv. 160 A ‘Hinterwelt’, as Nietzsche called it, or a ‘supernatural’ realm that we furnish with this-worldly but sublimized things and persons.