resublime

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ sublime.

Verb

resublime (third-person singular simple present resublimes, present participle resubliming, simple past and past participle resublimed)

1. To sublime again.
   • 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:

     When Mercury sublimate is resublimed with fresh Mercury, and becomes Mercurius dulcis

Related terms

• resublimation

References

“resublime”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.