sublimate

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Middle English sublymate, from Latin sublīmātus, past participle of sublīmāre (“to raise, elevate”).

=solimán=, m., corrosive sublimate of mercury; =hecho un ----=, angry, furious, hopping mad. — A First Spanish Reader, Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler
Anton Pavlovitch instantly washed his wound with warm water and sublimate, sprinkled iodoform and put on a bandage. — Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov, Maksim Gorky
And Napoleon, was he aught but an abridgment of the French nation, the sublimate and "proof" essence of French character? — Western Characters; or, Types of Border Life in the Western States, John Ludlum McConnel

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