Sublime vs Distill - What's the difference?
sublime | distill |
(chemistry, physics) To sublimate.
To raise on high.
* E. P. Whipple
To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.
* Alexander Pope
To dignify; to ennoble.
* Jeremy Taylor
Noble and majestic.
* De Quincey
Impressive and awe-inspiring.
* Prior
* Longfellow
(obsolete) Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.
* Dryden
(obsolete) Elevated by joy; elated.
* Milton
Lofty of mien; haughty; proud.
* Spenser
* Milton
(lb) To subject a substance to distillation.
(lb) To undergo or be produced by distillation.
(lb) To make by means of distillation, especially whisky.
(lb) To exude in small drops.
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(lb) To impart in small quantities.
(lb) To extract the essence of; concentrate; purify.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
(lb) To trickle down or fall in small drops; ooze out.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Soft showers distilled , and suns grew warm in vain.
*Sir (Walter Raleigh) (ca.1554-1618)
*:The Euphrates distilleth out of the mountains of Armenia.
(lb) To be manifested gently or gradually.
(lb) To drip or be wet with.
As verbs the difference between sublime and distill
is that sublime is to sublimate while distill is to subject a substance to distillation.As an adjective sublime
is noble and majestic.As a noun sublime
is something sublime.sublime
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
(sublim)- A soul sublimed by an idea above the region of vanity and conceit.
- The sun / Which not alone the southern wit sublimes , / But ripens spirits in cold, northern climes.
- An ordinary gift cannot sublime a person to a supernatural employment.
Etymology 2
From (etyl)Adjective
(er)- the sublime Julian leader
- sublime''' scenery; a '''sublime deed
- Easy in words thy style, in sense sublime .
- Know how sublime a thing it is / To suffer and be strong.
- Sublime on these a tower of steel is reared.
- Their hearts were jocund and sublime , / Drunk with idolatry, drunk with wine.
- countenance sublime and insolent
- His fair, large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.
