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Latin
Etymology
sublīmō + -tiō
Noun
sublīmātiō f (genitive sublīmātiōnis); third declension
- (chemistry, physics) sublimation
- (Medieval Latin) exaltation
12th century, Peter Cellensis, “In Annuntiatione Dominica IV.”, in Sermones, sermon 25:Quam mirabile est Deum hominem fieri, tam grande est hominem in Deum assumi. Indicibilis est illa Dei exinanitio; ineffabilis est hominis sublimatio.- It is as wonderful for God to be made man as it is great for man to be assumed into God. That emptying of God is inexpressible; the exaltation of man is ineffable.
- (Medieval Latin) accession to a throne
1273, Rudolf I of Germany, Codex Epistolaris Rudolfi I. Rom. Regis, Epistolas CCXXX. Anecdotas Continens, published 1806, letter 4, page 5:qualiter in sublimationis nostrae principiis operata sit gratia Deitatis- how the grace of the Divine nature was at work in the beginning of our accession
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “sublimatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sublimatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- sublimatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “sublimatio”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill