n 1  :  MERCURIC CHLORIDE  2  :  a chemical product obtained by sublimation
vt, -mat*ed  -mat*ing  1  :  SUBLIME  2  :  to divert the expression of (an instinctual desire or impulse) from its primitive form to one that is considered more socially or culturally acceptable <sexual passion was largely sublimated into intellectual passion -Havelock Ellis>  .
 
   
 
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