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exalted, ppl. a.|ɛgˈzɒltɪd, -ɔː-|
[f. exalt v.]
1. Raised or set up on high; elevated.
1601Shakes. Jul. C. i. i. 65 Weepe your teares Into the Channell, till the lowest streame Do kisse the most exalted Shores of all. a1631Drayton Elegies, To W. Brown, Thoughts..winged to fly To that exalted stand. 1728Pope Dunc. ii. 175 Thro' half the heav'ns he pours the exalted urn. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. II. 108 The Great King..from an exalted throne beheld the misfortunes of his arms.
†b. Of the voice: Elevated, raised aloud. Obs.
1711Steele Spect. No. 147 ⁋2 These pronounce the first part of a Sentence with a very exalted Voice. 1743Bulkeley & Cummins Voy. S. Seas 74 With an exalted Voice, Captain C―p, says, etc. 1790‘A Lady’ Norman & Bertha II. 148 Mrs. Westbrook and Norman heard their exalted voices, but could not distinguish their words.
2. Elevated in rank, station, or public estimation. Usually without implication of any previous lower condition: Highly placed, of high station, etc. an exalted personage: used for someone of high (usually royal or princely) rank, whom it is not desired to designate explicitly.
1623–6Cockeram ii, Exalted, promoted. 1737Pope Hor. Epist. ii. ii. 106 Peers give way, exalted as they are, Ev'n to their own S-r-v-nce in a car. 1800Fisher Ames Eulogy on Washington Wks. (1809) 116 Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxii, The physician..hoped he saw his exalted patient merry and happy. 1847Dr. Corrie in Holroyd Memorials (1890) 248 To place over us an exalted personage who has not been educated among us. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 41 Any man whom a revolution has..hurled down from an exalted position.
3. Of persons: Impassioned, rapturously excited.
1712Steele Spect. No. 503 ⁋2 When the Musick was strong and bold, she look'd exalted, but serious. 1814Southey Roderick xii, From vale To vale the exalted Adosinda went.
b. Of the pulse: High, rapid.
1742Fielding J. Andrews i. xiii, His pulse was very exalted.
4. Of feelings, powers, sentiments, states of the mind:
†a. Carried to a high degree; intense.
b. Elevated, lofty in character; sublime, noble. Cf. exaltation 2 d, e.
1601Shakes. Twel. N. ii. v. 30 Besides she uses me with a more exalted respect, than any one else. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. i. vi, He, whose high Reason, and exalted Piety, has..plac'd him above them. 1704J. Trapp Abra-Mulé ii. i. 381 You cannot boast a more exalted Hatred Against the Visier's Person. 1746–7Hervey Medit. (1818) 160 The light of God's countenance will irradiate..all their exalted faculties. 1812Sir H. Davy Chem. Philos. 12 Warm with the ardor of an extending and exalted religion. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Goethe Wks. (Bohn) I. 382 Some men are born with exalted powers for this second creation.
c. Of diction: Elevated, ‘high-flown’.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. (1843) 6/1 After many exalted expressions to that purpose. 1684Earl Roscom. Ess. Translated Verse 26 In what exalted streins Sicilian Muses..Proclaim Saturnian Times. 1739T. Sheridan tr. Persius Ded. 8 A most exalted Lecture, instructing us in the true Freedom of the Mind.
†5. Chem. and Phys. Refined, sublimed, concentrated. Cf. exalt v. 3. Of flavour, smell, etc.: Intense, strong. Obs.
1594Plat Jewell-ho. iii. 85 To make proiection..with a medicine so exalted, as that one shal extend vpon a hundreth. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 14 It contains a great deal of exalted Oil. 1746R. James Introd. Moufet's Health's Improv. 18 The Solan Goose..whose Flesh is of a very exalted Taste. 1751Chambers Cycl. s.v. Exaltation, Most sulphurous matters, much exalted, are observed to be of a red colour. 1796Pegge Anonym. (1809) 146 The venom of the Adder, or English Viper, is not so exalted..as that of the Italian. |