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To this they add Sublimate, which is it self a De-compound body,
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Sublimate: to divert the expression of an instinctual desire or impulse from its primitive form to one that is considered more socially or culturally acceptable.
badger Diary Entry badger 2002
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= Corrosive Sublimate = (perchloride of mercury) is in heavy colourless masses of prismatic crystals, possessing an acrid, metallic taste.
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-- Take Tincture of Cantharides one ounce, and Corrosive Sublimate one drachm; mix and bathe his shoulder at night.
One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed C. A. Bogardus
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_Corrosive Sublimate, Saltpetre, Blue Vitriol, Bed-bug Poison: _ -- Give white of egg, freshly mixed with water, in large quantities; or give wheat flour and water, or soap and water freely, or salt and water, or large draughts of milk.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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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.
Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914
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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.
Zuleika Dobson 1911
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Corrosive Sublimate. | absorbed, follow with a mustard
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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Iodoformether, Ether, Sublimate, Thymol, destroy the tubercle-bacilli so slowly and only in such high concentrations that their application is impossible without endangering the patient.
Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated Max Birnbaum 1876
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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.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855
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