Commanding and Sublime

commanding

Be in command of.
- usage: "The general commanded a huge army"
- synonyms: command
Make someone do something.
- synonyms: command, require
Demand as one's due.
- usage: "This speaker commands a high fee"; "The author commands a fair hearing from his readers"
- synonyms: command
Look down on.
- usage: "The villa dominates the town"
- synonyms: dominate, command, overlook, overtop
Exercise authoritative control or power over.
- usage: "control the budget"; "Command the military forces"
- synonyms: control, command

Used of a height or viewpoint.
- usage: "a commanding view of the ocean"; "looked up at the castle dominating the countryside"; "the balcony overlooking the ballroom"
- synonyms: dominating, overlooking

(a.) Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence.
(a.) Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer.
(a.) Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position.
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Command.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

sublime

Vaporize and then condense right back again.
- synonyms: sublimate
Change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting.
- usage: "sublime iodine"; "some salts sublime when heated"
- synonyms: sublimate

Inspiring awe.
- usage: "well-meaning ineptitude that rises to empyreal absurdity- M. S. Dworkin; "empyrean aplomb- Hamilton Basso; "the sublime beauty of the night"
- synonyms: empyreal, empyrean
Worthy of adoration or reverence.
- synonyms: reverend
Lifted up or set high. "their hearts were jocund and sublime- Milton
Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style.
- usage: "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"; "a grand purpose"
- synonyms: exalted, elevated, grand, high-flown, high-minded, lofty, rarefied, rarified, idealistic, noble-minded

(superl.) Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.
(n.) A grand or lofty style in speaking or writing; a style that expresses lofty conceptions.
(n.) That which is sublime; -- with the definite article.
(superl.) Awakening or expressing the emotion of awe, adoration, veneration, heroic resolve, etc.; dignified; grand; solemn; stately; -- said of an impressive object in nature, of an action, of a discourse, of a work of art, of a spectacle, etc.; as, sublime scenery; a sublime deed.
(v.t.) To subject to the process of sublimation; to heat, volatilize, and condense in crystals or powder; to distill off, and condense in solid form; hence, also, to purify.
(superl.) Distinguished by lofty or noble traits; eminent; -- said of persons.
(v.t.) To raise on high.
(v.t.) To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.
(v.i.) To pass off in vapor, with immediate condensation; specifically, to evaporate or volatilize from the solid state without apparent melting; -- said of those substances, like arsenic, benzoic acid, etc., which do not exhibit a liquid form on heating, except under increased pressure.
(superl.) Lofty of mien; haughty; proud.
(n.) That which is grand in nature or art, as distinguished from the merely beautiful.
(v.t.) To dignify; to ennoble.
(superl.) Elevated by joy; elate.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary