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▪ I. elevate, pa. pple. and ppl. a.|ˈɛlɪveɪt|
Also 4–5 eleuat(e, (5 eliuate), 6 elevat.
[ad. L. ēlevāt-us, pa. pple. of ēlevā-re to elevate.]
Used as pa. pple. of elevate; also = elevated ppl. a.; in various senses. From 18th c. only poet.
c1391Chaucer Astrol. ii. §23 This is to seyn, as many degrees as thy pool is eleuat, so michel is the latitude of the Regioun. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 227 If that ston be oon say..by what arte hit was elevate. 1509Hawes Examp. Virt. vii. 134 He in rychesse shall be so eleuate. 1513Bradshaw St. Werburge (1848) 125 The graue was, opened, eleuat was the chest. 1598Stow Surv. xxix. (1603) 259 A Tombe eleuate and arched. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 559 In thoughts more elevate. 1673R. Leigh Transp. Reh. 22 This is elevate, this is the new way of writing. 1676Halley in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) I. 228 St. Helena..where the south pole is considerably elevate. 1742Young Nt. Th. ii. 350 Souls elevate, angelic, wing'd with fire. 1814Southey Roderick vi, Elevate Amid the thousands..above their heads upraised. 1873Browning Red Cott. Nt.-Cap 1638 There had been shaggy eyebrows elevate.
▪ II. elevate, v.|ˈɛlɪveɪt|
Also 6 ellevate, eleuate.
[f. L. ēlevāt- ppl. stem of ēlevāre, f. ē out + levā-re (related to levis light) to render light, lighten, hence, to lift, raise.]
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1. trans. To lighten, lessen the weight of; to depreciate, extenuate. Obs.
1533Elyot Cast. Helth (1541) 35 a, Custome from chyldhode doth eleuate the power of meates and drynkes. c1570Thynne Pride & Lowl. (1841) 5 Cato..dooth their credit ellevate, As thing whereof but small regard he tooke. 1609Holland Livy xliv. xliv. 1199 b, [The Consul] forgat not to elevate as much as he could, the fame of the foresaid unhappie field. 1624Bp. R. Montagu Gagg 94 To avoide or elevate the censure of the church..[they] procured letters deprecatory. 1788V. Knox Winter Even. II. v. xii. 195 Instead of exalting our idea of the Deity they elevate or lower it.
II. To raise, lift up.
2. a. To raise above the usual position, or above the level of surrounding objects. Also fig.
1497Bp. Alcock Mons Perfectionis Cj 20/2 Obedyence..openeth heuens it eleuatith a man fro the erth dweller with angels. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 350 This first picture of the Ichneumon was taken by Bellonius, except the back be too much elevated. 1797M. Baillie Morb. Anat. (1807) 61 Unless the head..be more or less elevated from the horizontal posture. 1830J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. 4 The character..of the Oak is rather to extend its arms, than elevate its head. 1858Lardner Handbk. Nat. Phil. 109 The rope by which the bucket is elevated. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 186 The land in the Bay of Concepcion had been elevated to the extent of four or five feet.
b. To hold up to view. Now only with reference to the Mass: To lift up (the Host) for the adoration of the people.
1637Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. iii. ii. 32 When the hoste is elevated in the celebration of the Masse. 1649J. Kent in Ellis Orig. Lett. ii. 295 III. 342 A rogue of a minister, after his head was severed from his sacred body, elevated it publicly to the people. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 243 She [the Queen] had forbidden the Archbishop..to elevate the Host for adoration.
†c. To rear or raise (by building). Obs.
1798Ferriar Eng. Historians 243 On the northern side of the choir, was elevated one of those lofty, conical towers.
†d. Of the action of heat: To raise in the form of vapour; to evaporate or sublime. Obs.
1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 28 The damping fumes that the Sun elevates from bogges. 1665–9Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xii. (1675) 240 The Sun has by its..Beams elevated this Water in the form of Vapours. 1667― Orig. Formes & Qual., These volatile particles of Gold, with the Salts wherewith they were elevated. 1715[see elevated 1 b].
3. transf. To raise (the voice).
1618Rowlands Sacred Mem. 30 But they the more do eleuate their voyce. 1816[See elevated ppl. a. 2.] Mod. It is unnecessary to elevate your voice.
4. To raise in direction, direct upwards.
a. To raise (one's eyes), direct (glances) upwards; fig. to ‘lift up’ (one's hopes, thoughts) to a higher object.
c1611Shakes. Wint. T. v. ii. 82 One Eye declin'd for the losse of her Husband, another eleuated, that the Oracle was fulfill'd. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India II. iv. iv. 143 The English now elevated their hopes to the recovery of the province.
b. Gunnery. To raise the axis of (a gun, etc.) to an angle with the horizon.
1692in Capt. Smith's Seaman's Gram. ii. xxi. 134 Put in your Bullet with a Wad after it, if the Piece be not elevated. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789) Hh b, The mortar must be more elevated. 1859F. Griffiths Artil. Man (1862) 112 No. 2 searches, sponges, rams home, elevates.
5. a. To raise, exalt in rank or status.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxvii. xix, For riche mennes goodes I muste ofte translate, Unto the poore, them for to elevate. 1606Warner Alb. Eng. xiv. lxxxv. (1612) 351 Nathak, who, eleuated, altered from vertuous to most vaine. 1709Steele Tatler No. 56 ⁋2 Footmen, Fiddlers, and Lacqueys, are elevated into Companions in this present Age. 1713― Englishman No. 2. 10 We like nothing but what will..elevate us above our Neighbours. 1835Lytton Rienzi i. i, See what liberty exists in Rome, when we, the patricians, thus elevate a plebeian.
†b. To extol or magnify (in praise). Obs.
1513Bradshaw St. Werburge (1848) 48 With reverence hym elevate.
6. a. To raise in a moral or intellectual sense.
1624Gataker Transubst. 89 To elevate our minde by faith. 1711Steele Spect. No. 79 ⁋9 Choose Books which elevate the Mind above the World. 1850Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xxiii. 229 You might as well set Mount ætna on them flat, and tell them to stand up under it, as tell me to elevate my servants with all the superincumbent mass of society upon them. a1867Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 63 There is hardly any virtue which so elevates our character, as moral courage. 1883H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spir. W. iii. (1884) 98 The attempt to elevate the race has been mysteriously thwarted.
b. absol.
1886‘M. Gray’ Silence of D. Maitland III. iii. vi. 154 It was the kind of sorrow that purifies and elevates. 1967Listener 5 Oct. 448/2 The first step is to brainwash the pop audience of its pirate-induced distrust of the Corporation..then, slyly and imperceptibly, elevate.
7. a. To elate, exhilarate. Somewhat rare in mod. use.
1634Malory's Arthur (1816) I. 173, I was so elevated..in my heart. 1709Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) VI. 483 Being elevated by the terror he had struck into the enemy..[he] resolved to advance and fight them. 1725De Foe Voy. round W. (1840) 34 He seemed extremely pleased at this, and even elevated. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India II. iv. ii. 77 The French, elevated by this advantage, reinforced their victorious party.
b. spec. of the effects of liquor. Now humorous or slang.
a1704T. Brown Wks. (1760) II. 194 (D.) We were all elevated above the use of our legs as well as our reason. 1763Brit. Mag. IV. 372, I, being elevated with liquor. 1816‘Quiz’ Grand Master viii. 230 But with the jumping-powder heated, He got completely—elevated. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. ix. (C.D. ed.) 94 His depth of feeling is misunderstood. He is supposed to be a little elevated; and nobody heeds him. |