different between sublime vs transcendental

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??bla?m/
• Rhymes: -a?m

Etymology 1

From Middle English sublimen, borrowed from Old French sublimer, from Latin sublim? (“to raise on high; to sublimate (in Medieval Latin)”).

Verb

sublime (third-person singular simple present sublimes, present participle subliming, simple past and past participle sublimed)

1. (chemistry, physics, transitive, intransitive) To sublimate.
2. (transitive) To raise on high.
   • 1857, E. P. Whipple, Harper's Magazine

     a soul sublimed by an idea above the region of vanity and conceit

3. (transitive) To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.

   Synonym: (archaic) sublimate
4. (transitive) To dignify; to ennoble.
   • a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, Clerus Domini, or, A discourse of the divine institution, necessity, sacredness, and separation of the office ministerial together with the nature and manner of its power and operation

     An ordinary gift cannot sublime a person to a supernatural employment.

Related terms

• sublimation

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle French sublime, from Latin subl?mis (“high”), from sub- (“up to, upwards”) + a root of uncertain affiliation often identified with Latin l?mis, ablative singular of l?mus (“oblique”) or l?men (“threshold, entrance, lintel”)

Adjective

sublime (comparative sublimer, superlative sublimest)

1. Noble and majestic.
   • 1842, Thomas De Quincey, Cicero (published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine)

     the sublime Julian leader

2. Impressive and awe-inspiring, yet simple.
3. (obsolete) Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.

   • Sublime on these a tower of steel is reared.

4. (obsolete) Elevated by joy; elated.
5. Lofty of mien; haughty; proud.

Related terms

• subliminal

Translations

Noun

sublime (plural sublimes)

1. Something sublime.

Translations

Anagrams

• blueism

Danish

Adjective

sublime

1. definite of sublim
2. plural of sublim

French

Etymology

From Middle French sublime, borrowed from Latin sublimis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.blim/
• Rhymes: -im

Adjective

sublime (plural sublimes)

1. sublime, extraordinary

Derived terms

• Sublime Porte

Verb

sublime

1. inflection of sublimer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “sublime” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

sublime

1. inflection of sublim:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sublimis.

Adjective

sublime (plural sublimi)

1. sublime

Related terms

• sublimità

Latin

Adjective

subl?me

1. vocative masculine singular of subl?mus

References

• sublime in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sublime in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sublime in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin subl?mus.

Adjective

sublime m or f (plural sublimes)

1. sublime (noble, majestic, magnificent, etc.)

Descendants

• French: sublime

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /su.?bli.m?/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /su.?bli.m?/
• Hyphenation: su?bli?me

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin subl?mis.

Adjective

sublime m or f (plural sublimes, comparable)

1. sublime

Noun

sublime m, f (plural sublimes)

1. sublime

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

sublime

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of sublimar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of sublimar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of sublimar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of sublimar

Related terms

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sublimis.

Adjective

sublime (plural sublimes)

1. sublime

Verb

sublime

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of sublimar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of sublimar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of sublimar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of sublimar.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?æns?n?d?nt?l/

Noun

transcendental (plural transcendentals)

1. (obsolete) A transcendentalist.
2. (philosophy, metaphysics, Platonism, Christian theology, usually in the plural) Any one of the three transcendental properties of being: truth, beauty or goodness, which respectively are the ideals of science, art and religion and the principal subjects of the study of logic, aesthetics and ethics.
   • 2002, Robert C. Neville, Religion in Late Modernity, State University of New York Press, page 72,

     In deference to Christian usage we can say that the transcendentals constitute the Logos within which everything has its being and according to which everything is made.

   • 2012, Lukas Soderstrom (translator), Jean Grondin, Introduction to Metaphysics: From Parmenides to Levinas, Columbia University Press, page 105,

     These predicates of Being are what the Medievals called, using a term that will have a fertile future, "transcendentals" (often called the "universals") because they transcend all particular genera, following the example of Being.⁹⁶ A quarrel over these transcendentals even shook the later Middle Ages. The quarrel stemmed from the question of whether the existence of these transcendentals was real or intellectual (also called nominal).

   • 2012, Jan Aertsen, Medieval Philosophy as Transcendental Thought: From Philip the Chancellor (ca. 1225) to Francisco Suárez, BRILL, page 515,

     The medieval doctrine of the transcendentals is closely connected with a metaphysical conception of reality, but is there a science of being in William of Ockham (ca. 1285-1347)?

   • 2015, Anthony Howard, Humanise: Why Human-Centred Leadership is the Key to the 21st Century, Wiley, page 70,

     Another fascinating thing about the transcendentals is that each is fully contained in the others. When you appreciate beauty, for example, you recognise the presence of goodness and truth. When you grasp the truth about something you experience a moment of beauty in, perhaps, the simplicity or power of the insight. When you observe goodness in the actions of another person you are seeing truth and beauty in operation.

Translations

Adjective

transcendental (comparative more transcendental, superlative most transcendental)

1. (philosophy) Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience.
   • 1985, J. N. Mohanty, The Possibility of Transcendental Philosophy, Kluwer Academic (Martinus Nijhoff), page xiii,

     The best way to demonstrate the possibility of something is to show its actuality, for actuality implies possibility. At least since Kant, transcendental philosophies have been on the scene. However, such simple demonstration of the possibility of transcendental philosophy has not been effective and is not likely to be so — so strong is the presumption that transcendental philosophy just could not be possible, or, if it was possible earlier, it is not possible now.

   • 1999, Robert Stern, 4: On Kant's Response to Hume: The Second Analogy as Transcendental Argument, Robert Stern (editor), Transcendental Arguments: Problems and Prospects, 2003, Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), Paperback, page 47,

     Whilst it was once held that transcendental arguments could provide a direct and straightforward refutation of scepticism, this view now seems over-optimistic.

   • 2007, Steven Crowell, Jeff Malpas, Chapter 1: Introduction Steven Crowell, Jeff Malpas, (editors), Transcendental Heidegger, Stanford University Press, page 1,

     Not only does Heidegger's early work stand within the framework of transcendental phenomenology as established by Husserl—even though it also contests and revises that framework—but that thinking also stands in a close relationship to the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and specifically to the transcendental project, and modes of argument, of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

2. Superior; surpassing all others; extraordinary; transcendent.
3. Mystical or supernatural.
4. (algebra, number theory, field theory, of a number or an element of an extension field) Not algebraic (i.e., not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients).
   • 1975, Alan Baker, Transcendental Number Theory, Cambridge University Press, 1990, 2nd Edition, page 1,

     The theory of transcendental numbers was originated by Liouville in his famous memoir^† of 1844 in which he obtained, for the first time, a class, très-étendue, as it was described in the title of the paper, of numbers that satisfy no algebraic equation with integer coefficients.

   • 2005, Juan G. Roederer, Information and Its Role in Nature, Springer, page 28,

     If the distribution of decimal digits of ${\displaystyle \pi }$ (or any other transcendental number) is truly random (suspected but not yet mathematically proven!), given any arbitrary finite sequence of whole numbers, that sequence would be included an infinite number of times in the decimal expansion of ${\displaystyle \pi }$.

5. (algebra, field theory, of an extension field) That contains elements that are not algebraic.
   • 2006, Steven Roman, Field Theory, Springer, 2nd Edition, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 158, page 108,

     Suppose that ${\displaystyle F<E}$ is purely transcendental. Show that any simple extension of ${\displaystyle F}$ contained in ${\displaystyle E}$ (but not equal to ${\displaystyle F}$) is transcendental over ${\displaystyle F}$.

Antonyms

• (not the root of a polynomial with rational coefficients): algebraic
• (containing elements that are not the root of a polynomial): algebraic

Hypernyms

• (not the root of a polynomial with rational coefficients): irrational

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• Transcendence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (philosophy):
  • Transcendentals on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Epistemology#Idealism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Metaphysics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Critique of Pure Reason on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (algebra, number theory, field theory):
  • Transcendental number on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Liouville number#Liouville numbers and transcendence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Field (mathematics)#Transcendence bases on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Field extension#Transcendental extension on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Transcendental extension on Encyclopedia of Mathematics
  • Transcendental Extension on Wolfram MathWorld

German

Adjective

transcendental (comparative transcendentaler, superlative am transcendentalsten)

1. Obsolete spelling of transzendental

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French transcendantal, from Latin transcendentalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?trans.t??e.den?tal/

Adjective

transcendental m or n (feminine singular transcendental?, masculine plural transcendentali, feminine and neuter plural transcendentale)

1. transcendental

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /t?ans?enden?tal/, [t??ãns.??n?.d??n??t?al]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /t?ansenden?tal/, [t??ãn.s?n?.d??n??t?al]

Adjective

transcendental (plural transcendentales)

1. transcendental