Sublime vs Rare - What's the difference?
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(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
(cooking, particularly meats) Cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense).
* Dryden
Very uncommon; scarce.
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(US) To rear, rise up, start backwards.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 328:
(US) To rear, bring up, raise.
(obsolete) early
* Chapman
In obsolete terms the difference between sublime and rare
is that sublime is elevated by joy; elated while rare is early.As verbs the difference between sublime and rare
is that sublime is to sublimate while rare is to rear, rise up, start backwards.As adjectives the difference between sublime and rare
is that sublime is noble and majestic while rare is cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense).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.
Anagrams
* ----rare
English
Etymology 1
From a dialectal variant of rear, from (etyl) rere, from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (UK)Adjective
(en-adj)- New-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care / Turned by a gentle fire, and roasted rare .
Synonyms
* (cooked very lightly) sanguinaryAntonyms
* (cooked very lightly) well doneDerived terms
* medium-rareEtymology 2
From (etyl) rare, from (etyl) rare, .Adjective
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Synonyms
* (very uncommon) scarce, selcouth, seld, seldsome, selly, geason, uncommonAntonyms
* (very uncommon) commonDerived terms
* rare bird * rare earth mineralEtymology 3
Variant of rear .Verb
(rar)- Frank pretended to rare back as if bedazzled, shielding his eyes with a forearm.
Usage notes
* (rft-sense) Principal current, non-literary use is of the present participle raring' with a verb in "'''raring''' to". The principal verb in that construction is ''go''. Thus, '''''raring''' to go'' ("eager (to start something)") is the expression in which '''''rare is most often encountered as a verb.Etymology 4
Compare rather, rath.Adjective
(en adjective)- Rude mechanicals that rare and late / Work in the market place.