Obs. [f. L. sublevāt-, pa. ppl. stem of sublevāre (see next).]
1. trans. To raise, lift up, elevate.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 15 b/2. The grounde-drawer, to subleuate out of the hoale, the Trepanede bone.
1613. Jackson, Creed, II. 343. Whether God … cannot … by … subleuating their dull capacitie by facilitie and plentie of externall meanes, repaire whatsoeuer the iniuries of time.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Sublevate, to lift or hold up; Also to help, aid, ease, lighten or lessen.
1657. Physical Dict., Sublevated, carried upward, as the vapors and spirits in distilation, or the dew when the sun riseth.
2. To sublimate.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 90. Which serves for distilling those things which are easily sublevated.
