sub-lime / sə-ˈblīm
adjective grand or lofty in thought, expression, etc. Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime. John Ruskin, 1819-1900 complete Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. Alexander Pope, 1688-1744 outstanding Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882 noun the best or greatest You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful are infinite. Madame de Stael, 1766-1817 verb to elevate or make nobler, greater, etc. The cursory remarks of the large-minded stranger, of whom he knew absolutely nothing beyond a commonplace name, were sublimed by his death. from ‘Tess of the d’Urbervilles’ by Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928 in chemistry, to cause to go from a solid state to a vapor state, and then pass back to a solid state For example, solid iodine, I2, is easily sublimed at temperatures around 100° C. courses.lumenlearning.com/introchem/chapter/solid-to-gas-phase-transition