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exalter|ɛgˈzɒltə(r)|
[f. exalt v. + -er1.]
One who, or that which, exalts (in senses of the vb.).
1471Ripley Comp. Alch. Pref. in Ashm. (1652), Fro thys envyos valey of vanyte, O our Exalter. 1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 309 O noble sisters..who were the onely exalters of all womankinde. 1678R. Barclay Apol. Quakers viii. §6. 250 Our Adversaries are Exalters of the Scriptures in words. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xviii. 621 Cinnabar..is an useful Exalter, and a..safe Alexiterick. c1732Swift Answ. to ‘A Conclusion’ in Anderson Poets Gt. Brit. (1794) IX. 147 Her majesty never shall be my exalter; And yet she would raise me, I know, by a halter! 1731A. Hill Adv. Poets, Epist. 5 A Poet is..an Exalter of what is most dignified, and substantial, in Nature. a1849J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 176 The Grave is the only Exalter. |