[ad. L. sublātio, -ōnem, n. of action f. sublāt- (see SUBLATE v.).]
† 1. The middle part of a liquid that has thrown its sediment. Obs.
1533. Elyot, Cast. Helth (1541), 88 b. If lyke thynges be sene in the myddell of the urynall, they be called sublations.
1590. Barrough, Meth. Phisick, IV. vii. (1596), 233. Their vrine hath by and by a white cloude, or a laudable sublation in the middes.
2. The act of taking away, removal.
1626. J. Yates, Ibis ad Cæsarem, I. 18. The subversion of Sauls Kingdome, dispersion of the Iewes, rejection of the guests, sublation of the talents.
a. 1656. Bp. Hall, Rem. Wks. (1660), 188. He could not be forsaken by a sublation of union.
1913. Dorland, Med. Dict., Sublation, the removal, detachment, or displacement of a part.
b. Logic. (See SUBLATE v. 2.)
1864. Bowen, Logic, vii. 219. Only by the non-existence, or sublation, of all the others.
c. Hegelian Philos. (See SUBLATE v. 3.)
1865. J. H. Stirling, Secret of Hegel, I. 356. Aufheben und das Aufgehobene (das Ideelle), sublation and what is sublated (and so only idéellement, not réellement is), this is … a ground-form which repeats itself everywhere and always, the sense of which is to be exactly apprehended and particularly distinguished from Nothing.
† 3. A lifting up, elevation. Obs.
1653. R. G., trans. Bacon’s Hist. Winds, 382. Let us enquire whether there be any such sublation or raising made by consent, or Magnetick power.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Sublation, a lifting up.
