[f. SUBLIME v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb SUBLIME.
1. = SUBLIMATION 1.
1471. Ripley, Comp. Alch., VIII. ii. in Ashm. (1652), 171. Such Sublymyng accordyth never adele To our entent.
1584. R. Scot, Discov. Witchcr., XIV. i. 354. Their subliming, amalgaming, engluting.
1656. Ridgley, Pract. Physick, 248. Tartars use the thin part of Milk separated by subliming, to make themselves drunk.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Subliming-Pots, the Vessels that serve for the Subliming of any Mixt Bodies.
1886. Guillemard, Cruise of Marchesa, I. 23. The camphor, on subliming, is collected and packed in barrels.
† 2. Exaltation. Obs. rare.
1641. Sir E. Dering, Sp. on Relig., E ij b. This too elate subliming of one can not stand without a too mean demission of many other.
3. attrib., as subliming dome (DOME sb. 5 a), -glass, -pot, vessel.
1673. Boyle, Ess. Effluviums, III. 13. The Subliming-glass.
1682. K. Digby, Chym. Secrets, II. 208. A Glass head upon your last Subliming-pot.
1719. Quincy, Lex. Physico-Med. (1722), 13. Aludels are subliming Pots used in Chymistry.
c. 1789. Encycl. Brit. (1797), IV. 446/1. The mouth of the subliming vessel.
1827. Faraday, Chem. Manip., xvi. (1842), 411. The bent tube being of such diameter as freely to pass over the subliming tube.
1881. Greener, Gun, 309. The vapour … passes into the subliming dome, and is immediately precipitated into … flower of sulphur.
