sublimate

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For special purposes, for instance, the demonstration of mitoses, blood platelets, etc., other hardening reagents may be used with advantage: Sublimate, osmic acid, Flemming's fluid, and so forth.

From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.

Dr. Bulkley recommends this lotion:     Corrosive Sublimate 5 grains     Dilute Acetic Acid 2 drams     Borax 40 grains     Rose water enough for 4 ounces Shake bottle, mix and apply to the part night and morning.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson

Sublimate, sub′lim-āt, v.t. to elevate: to refine and exalt: to purify by raising by heat into vapour which again becomes solid.—n. the product of sublimation.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Sublimate, as you will, the idea of our ethereality as intellectual beings; no sensible man can harbor a doubt, but that there is a vast deal of satisfaction in dining.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman

Sublimate the dignity of that bearing and of those features, and you will then have seen the fourteenth Duke somewhat as he stood reflected in the mirror of his room.

From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir