adj.
 (sublimer, sublimest)
  - of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe.
 - extreme or unparalleled:
 the sublime confidence of youth.
 
v.
  - Chemistry  (with reference to a solid substance) change directly into vapour when heated, typically forming a solid deposit again on cooling.
 - archaic elevate to a high degree of purity or excellence.
 
 
  Derivative
  
    - sublimely adv.
  - sublimity n.
 
   
  Etymology
  C16 (in the sense ‘dignified, aloof’): from L. sublimis, from sub- ‘up to’ + a second element perh. rel. to limen ‘threshold’, limus ‘oblique’.