elevationn.

/ɛlɪˈveɪʃən/

Etymology: < Latin ēlevātiōn-em, noun of action < ēlevāre : see elevate v.

I. Process or result of elevating.

a. The action or process of lifting up or raising aloft; also, the giving of an upward direction to anything. valley of elevation (see quot. 1887).

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > [noun]

highing?c1225

heavinga1300

hancinga1382

arearing1382

hainingc1440

enhancing1490

elevation1526

raise1538

elation1578

heightening1598

raisure1613

exaltation1616

sublation1623

elevating1648

sublevation1663

upraising1839

uprearing1853

upsetting1882

updraw1912

the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun] > rift valley or valley of elevation

valley of elevation1526

rift valley1894

graben1896

fault-line valley1913

rift1921

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Eii The eleuacions or wawes of the see ben meruelous.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 61 A bul..can tosse into the aire very great..beasts which he receiueth againe as they fall downe, doubling their eleuation with renewed strength and rage.

1663 W. Charleton Chorea Gigantum 32 At first elevation of their eyes.

1682 N. Grew Exper. Luctation ii. i. §6 in Anat. Plants 239 Elevation; when, like Paste in baking..they [sc. the bodies mixed] swell and huff up.

1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 96 The disruption of the Strata..the Elevation of some, and Depression of others.

1863 A. C. Ramsay Physical Geol. & Geogr. Great Brit. (1878) i. 11 Volcanic regions subject to earthquakes are often areas of elevation.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 205 But the land is subject also to local elevations and depressions.

1887 H. B. Woodward Geol. Eng. & Wales (ed. 2) 586 We sometimes find the higher tracts to be formed by what was..a depression, while tracts originally elevated have been converted into..‘Valleys of Elevation’.

†b. spec. = erection n. Obsolete.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > erection

elevation1543

erection1594

tentigoa1603

Jack1604

stand1608

surgation1688

cockstandc1890

hard-on1898

hard1927

boner1936

hard up1937

bone-on1969

morning-glory1985

1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. i. f. 10^v/1 The yarde..is ful of ventosite..by which ventositie the eleuation of the same commeth.

c. spec. The lifting up of the Host for the adoration of the people.

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society > faith > worship > parts of service > canon > [noun] > elevation of host

levationc1375

elevation1570

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2165/2 Before the eleuation..he turned him to the people..in great rage.

1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies iii. ii. 28 The elevation of the bread materialiter, is not Idolatrous.

1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) xxviii. 342 The Elevation of the Sacrament began to be practised in the Sixth Century.

1884 F. M. Crawford Rom. Singer (ed. 2) I. 9 And only takes it off when he sings the Gloria Patri, or at the Elevation.

†d. figurative. The lifting up of the soul (in adoration); a devout exaltation of feeling. Obsolete.

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1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xlviii. 96 All which different eleuations of spirit vnto God are conteyned in the name of prayer.

1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §3 I could never heare the Ave Maria Bell without an elevation .

1674 J. Owen Disc. Holy Spirit (1693) 185 The Elevation of Faith to apprehend Divine Power.

1687 Bp. G. Burnet tr. Lactantius Relat. Death Primitive Persecutors 166 Let us then Celebrate Gods Triumph over his Enemies with all the Elevations of Joy.

1687 J. Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 259 We are..to love him with all possible..elevation of spirit.

e. Ballet. A dancer's leap or jump (steps of elevation) off the ground; the point attained in such a leap; in modern dance, an act or the action of tightening the muscles and improving the general lift of the body in a dancer's stance. (Also in French form élévation.)

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society > leisure > dancing > ballet > [noun] > movements

entrechat1706

pirouette1706

sissonne1706

batterie1712

cabriole1753

ballonné1760

balancé?1770

brisé1786

ballotté1802

rond de jambe1824

petit battement1828

battement1830

elevation1830

fouetté1830

jeté1830

changement de pied1840

développé1888

temps1890

pas de ciseaux1892

plié1892

changement1905

beat1913

ciseaux1913

glissé1913

ouvert1913

allegro1914

pas de chat1914

pas de cheval1916

soubresaut1916

grand jeté1919

lift1921

toe-dancing1924

pointwork1925

posé1927

jeté en tournant1930

tour1930

extension1934

tour jeté1935

fondu1939

retiré1941

chaîné1946

soutenu1947

passé1948

saut1948

contretemps1952

promenade1953

piqué1954

gargouillade1957

1830 R. Barton tr. C. Blasis Code of Terpsichore (ed. 2) ii. vi. 77 In all your high caperings, develope a manly vigour, and let your steps of elevation be agreeably contrasted, by the rapidity of your terre-à-terre steps.

1889 G. B. Shaw in Star 4 Oct. 2/4 The entrechats, battements, ronds de jambes, arabesques, élévations, and what's-his-names of the art of theatrical dancing.

1934 A. L. Haskell Balletomania xi. 223 She has gained an elevation that allows her to do thirty-six consecutive entrechats six!

1948 Ballet Ann. 2 36 A magnificent soaring elevation.

1948 Ballet Ann. 2 126 A slender dancer of exceptional elevation.

1949 G. Shurr & R. D. Yocom Mod. Dance i. 14 Elevation refers not only to ‘inches off the floor’—as in running, jumping, and leaping—but also to the body lift.

1961 Times 13 Apr. 16/7 She has a lightness and effortless purity, à terre and in elevation.

2. concrete. A rising or swelling (on the skin or surface of the ground); a rising ground, an eminence.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > swelling > [noun] > a swelling or protuberance

ampereOE

kernelc1000

wenc1000

knot?c1225

swella1250

bulchc1300

bunchc1325

bolninga1340

botcha1387

bouge1398

nodusa1400

oedemaa1400

wax-kernel14..

knobc1405

nodule?a1425

more?c1425

bunnyc1440

papa1450

knurc1460

waxing kernel?c1460

lump?a1500

waxen-kernel1500

bump1533

puff1538

tumour?1541

swelling1542

elevation1543

enlarging1562

knub1563

pimple1582

ganglion1583

button1584

phyma1585

emphysema?1587

flesh-pimple1587

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burgeon1597

wartle1598

hurtle1599

pough1601

wart1603

extumescence1611

hulch1611

peppernel1613

affusion1615

extumescency1684

jog1715

knibloch1780

tumefaction1802

hunch1803

income1808

intumescence1822

gibber1853

tumescence1859

whetstone1886

tumidity1897

Osler's node1920

the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun]

link931

rise1240

motea1300

bentc1405

mote-hill1475

territory1477

height1487

rising1548

raising1572

linch1591

mount1591

swelling1630

up1637

vertex1641

advance1655

ascendant1655

eminency1662

ascent1663

eminence1670

swell1764

elevation1799

embreastment1799

upwith1819

lift1825

salita1910

turtle-back1913

upwarp1917

upslope1920

whaleback1928

1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. ii. f. 23/2 Pruna hath not so great eleuation as ignis persicus.

1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 288/2 If..the Patient hath no externalle disease, nor anye eleuatione.

1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 285 Secondary strata present..elevations, from an original elevation in the fundamental stone.

1825 T. B. Macaulay Milton in Edinb. Rev. Aug. 324 Nooks and dells, beautiful as fairy land, are embosomed in its most rugged and gigantic elevations.

1848 S. C. Bartlett Egypt to Palestine (1879) x. 221 The remaining part of the elevation seemed like a small hill placed upon a terrace.

†3. Sublimation; vaporization by heat. Obsolete.

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the world > matter > gas > [noun] > fumes or vapour > action of being emitted or emitting

exhalation1398

smoking1530

fuminga1535

fumity1572

elevation1605

fumidity1623

avolation1650

fumosity1650

fumidness1727

steaming1819

outgassing1919

off-gassing1979

the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > sublimation

sublimationa1393

sublimingc1405

altificationa1550

elevation1605

meteorismus1848

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke ii. i. 103 The elevations and sublimations of the spirits of the said salt.

1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate Termes 342 Eleuation is subtiliation, when spirituall parts from the corporall..by the force of fire are eleuated.

1651 J. French Art Distillation i. 10 Elevation, is the rising of any matter in manner of fume, or vapour by vertue of heat.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iv. ii. 301 An elevation or rectification of some parts of that Matter.

4. transferred.

a. A raising or increase (of temperature).

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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > becoming hot or warm > increase in temperature

elevation1882

1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 825 The slight elevation of temperature in the forenoon.

b. A quickening (of the pulse); a raising of the animal spirits. Hence (dialect or nonstandard) that which raises the spirits, a ‘pick-me-up’.

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the world > life > the body > vascular system > circulation > pulsation > [noun] > types of pulsation

throb1597

fluttering1719

elevation1725

frequency1732

wallop1787

bradycardia1890

tricrotism1891

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [noun] > that which or one who refreshes or invigorates

spice?c1225

comfort1377

refresherc1450

refreshment1532

reviver1542

sauce1561

salt1579

refocillation1608

whettera1625

fillip1699

stimulant1728

stimulation1733

yeast1769

stimulus1791

inspiriter1821

stimulatory1821

refreshener1824

boost1825

bracer1826

young blood1830

freshener1838

invigoratorc1842

blow1849

tonic1849

elevation1850

stimulator1851

breather1876

pick-me-up1876

a shot in the arm1922

1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 88 Elevation or Depression of the Pulse.

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. xii. 183 What's elevation..Opium, bor' alive, opium.

a. The raising (of the voice) in loudness (? also in pitch).

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [noun] > power or range of voice > loudness of voice > raising of voice

elevation1605

uplifting1824

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Pp4^v The consideration of the Accidents of Wordes, which are Measure, sound, and Eleuation, or Accent.

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 45 Prolongation of Vowels, or Elevation of voice in the pronouncing of any syllable, Accent.

†b. concrete. The stressed syllable of a metrical foot; = arsis n. (rare).

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > beat > rhythmical or metrical stress

accent1550

stroke1576

impression1643

percussion1674

pulse1677

ictus1752

arsis?1775

elevation1776

thesis1864

upbeat1883

1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 73 They [sc. feet] were always divided into two parts..the first of which was called ἀρσις, elevation.

†6. Music. One of the ‘graces’ in old English music. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > ornament > [noun] > grace > grace-note > specific

elevation1659

port de voix1729

appoggiatura1753

leaning-note1811

warbler1875

Nachschlag1879

1659 C. Simpson Division-violist 9 Sometimes a Note is graced by sliding it from the Third below, called an Elevation, now something obsolete.

†7. The raising or rearing (of plants). Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > [noun]

governaila1400

husbanding?1440

nursing?1533

culture1580

cultivation1637

elevation1658

growth1663

rearing1693

growing1889

1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 38 The elevation and raising of Trees.

8. The action of raising in rank or dignity; the state or fact of being elevated in rank.

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society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > elevation or exaltation in rank

uprising1430

prelationa1450

sublimationc1450

ascendant1607

rise1608

superelevation1654

evection1658

elevation1701

1701 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) V. 4 The duke of Berwick was gone..to compliment the pope upon his elevation.

a1704 J. Locke Conduct of Understanding §3 in Posthumous Wks. (1706) 9 Angels and separate Spirits..in their several degrees of Elevation above us, may be endowed with more comprehensive Faculties.

1827 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (1873) 2nd Ser. 541 A sudden elevation in life..smells us out, and often perniciously.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. viii. 270 The many men of talent who owed their elevation to Wolsey.

II. The height to which anything is elevated.

9. Of angular magnitude:

a. Astronomy. The altitude or angular height of the pole, or of any heavenly body, above the horizon. †Of a place: The elevation of the pole at that place; the latitude (obsolete). Also in Dialling, the angle made by the gnomon with the horizon (which is equal to the latitude of the place).

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the world > the universe > heavenly body > position of heavenly body > [noun] > altitude

altitudec1386

elevationc1400

height1556

the world > the earth > geodetic references > [noun] > latitude

parallela1544

sublevation1556

height1585

latitude1622

degree1647

elevation1686

geographical latitude1712

geographic latitude1750

c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §23. 32 Tak ther the eleuacioun of thi pool.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 37 Cosmaghraphie..sal declair the..eleuatione..of the sone mune, and of the sternis.

1593 T. Fale Horologiographia f. 10 Before Sunne rising and after Sunne setting in our Elevation.

1650 J. Howell Instr. Forren Travell (new ed.) App. 138 The distance between places may be known by the elevation of the pole.

1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 471 Under the Elivation of oure Pole.

1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 247 The Elevation of Erivan is in 40 Deg. 15 Min.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Elevation of the Pole (in Dialling) is the Angle which the Style..makes with the Substylar Line.

1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §69. 373 The Elevation of the Pole in that place therefore is also given.

1877 G. F. Chambers Handbk. Descr. Astron. (ed. 3) 915 Elevation of the Pole.

b. The angle made with the horizontal by any line of direction; spec. the angle at which a gun is elevated.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > [noun] > (angle of) elevation

random?a1560

mounture1628

elevation1692

set1844

1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) ii. iv. 93 If his Piece be mounted to any Elevation, he need not put a Wad after the shot.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Range The bomb, being fired at an elevation of 45°.

1798 Capt. Millar in Ld. Nelson Disp. & Lett. (1846) VII. Introd. 155 I observed their shot..and knowing that..they would not have coolness enough to change their elevation, I closed them suddenly.

10.

a. A particular height or altitude above a given level; as the height of a locality above the level of the sea; of a building, etc., above the level of the ground.

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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > [noun] > above a certain level

heightc1290

highheadc1300

higha1398

altitudea1449

sideness?a1475

alturea1547

pitch1590

mounture1613

eminency1625

eminence1658

haut1686

elevation1732

the world > space > relative position > high position > [noun] > height above the ground or sea level

heightc1290

altitudea1449

absolute height1729

elevation1856

upwardness1896

1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. iii. ix. 181 The particular Distance, Position, Elevation, or Dimension of the Fabric.

1830 J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. (rev. ed.) 4 In sheltered groups they will reach an elevation of eighty or a hundred feet.

1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) ii. 129 Jerusalem is of nearly the same elevation as the highest ground in England.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §2. 19 What was snow at the higher elevations changed to rain lower down.

b. figurative.

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1822 T. Webster Imison's Elem. Sci. & Art (new ed.) II. 391 He will perceive to what an elevation the excellence of the art can raise him.

11. concrete. A drawing of a building or other object made in projection on a vertical plane, as distinguished from a ground plan.

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society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [noun] > a plan or diagram > elevation

upright1604

orthography1645

uprising1669

elevation1731

orthograph1875

1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Elevation (in Architect.) a draught or description of the face or principal side of a building, called also the Upright.

1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) IV. vi. 244 The plan and elevations of the late earl of Leicester's house.

1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic xi. 281 An elevation of the automaton, as seen from behind.

1847 S. Brooks (title) City, Town and Country Architecture, designs for Street Elevations, Shop Fronts, etc.

1874 R. St. J. Tyrwhitt Our Sketching Club 28 That's the front of your block which faces you,—the ‘elevation’ they call it.

12. As an abstract quality: Height, loftiness.

a. literal. Of a building, etc.

ΚΠ

1891 N.E.D. at Elevation Mod. A building of imposing elevation.

b. figurative. Of literary style: Grandeur, dignity; formerly also in plural, instances of elevation.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > loftiness or grandiloquence

magnificence1481

stateliness1550

sublimity1581

grandiloquence1589

sublimenessa1599

magniloquency1615

magniloquence1623

elevationa1639

rotundity1655

grandiloquy1656

magniloquy1656

grandeur1657

loftiness1663

magnificentness1727

altiloquence1775

grandiosity1801

grandioso1816

grandiloquent1829

ororotundity1831

ororotundoism1840

orotundity1909

a1639 H. Wotton Parallel betweene Earle of Essex & Duke of Buckingham (1641) 8 His Stile..wanted a little Elevation.

1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 335 The Elevation of an Expression in an Ancient Author.

1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 1 (1753) I Some [epic poets].. imagined themselves entitled..to Elevations not allowed in common Life.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 126 A return to..the classic form, its dignity, elevation, and severity.

c. figurative. Of character and sentiments: Nobleness, loftiness of tone.

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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > [noun] > nobility of character or sentiments

earlshipOE

greatness1340

noblenessa1382

hautesse1399

grandeur1656

height1662

elevationa1680

a1680 J. Glanvill Serm. iii. (R.) They..pitied the poor and carnal world..all that were not of their conceited pitch and elevation.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 87. ⁋7 When nothing is necessary to elevation but detection of the follies of others.

1868 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals II. i. 72 Elevation of character constituted the Roman ideal of perfection.

1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times III. xlvi. 407 His character was somewhat wanting in the dignity of moral elevation.

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单词	elevation
释义	elevationn. /ɛlɪˈveɪʃən/ Etymology: < Latin ēlevātiōn-em, noun of action < ēlevāre : see elevate v. I. Process or result of elevating. 1. a. The action or process of lifting up or raising aloft; also, the giving of an upward direction to anything. valley of elevation (see quot. 1887). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > [noun] highing?c1225 heavinga1300 hancinga1382 arearing1382 hainingc1440 enhancing1490 elevation1526 raise1538 elation1578 heightening1598 raisure1613 exaltation1616 sublation1623 elevating1648 sublevation1663 upraising1839 uprearing1853 upsetting1882 updraw1912 the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun] > rift valley or valley of elevation valley of elevation1526 rift valley1894 graben1896 fault-line valley1913 rift1921 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Eii The eleuacions or wawes of the see ben meruelous. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 61 A bul..can tosse into the aire very great..beasts which he receiueth againe as they fall downe, doubling their eleuation with renewed strength and rage. 1663 W. Charleton Chorea Gigantum 32 At first elevation of their eyes. 1682 N. Grew Exper. Luctation ii. i. §6 in Anat. Plants 239 Elevation; when, like Paste in baking..they [sc. the bodies mixed] swell and huff up. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 96 The disruption of the Strata..the Elevation of some, and Depression of others. 1863 A. C. Ramsay Physical Geol. & Geogr. Great Brit. (1878) i. 11 Volcanic regions subject to earthquakes are often areas of elevation. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 205 But the land is subject also to local elevations and depressions. 1887 H. B. Woodward Geol. Eng. & Wales (ed. 2) 586 We sometimes find the higher tracts to be formed by what was..a depression, while tracts originally elevated have been converted into..‘Valleys of Elevation’. †b. spec. = erection n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > erection elevation1543 erection1594 tentigoa1603 Jack1604 stand1608 surgation1688 cockstandc1890 hard-on1898 hard1927 boner1936 hard up1937 bone-on1969 morning-glory1985 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. i. f. 10^v/1 The yarde..is ful of ventosite..by which ventositie the eleuation of the same commeth. c. spec. The lifting up of the Host for the adoration of the people. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > parts of service > canon > [noun] > elevation of host levationc1375 elevation1570 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2165/2 Before the eleuation..he turned him to the people..in great rage. 1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies iii. ii. 28 The elevation of the bread materialiter, is not Idolatrous. 1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) xxviii. 342 The Elevation of the Sacrament began to be practised in the Sixth Century. 1884 F. M. Crawford Rom. Singer (ed. 2) I. 9 And only takes it off when he sings the Gloria Patri, or at the Elevation. †d. figurative. The lifting up of the soul (in adoration); a devout exaltation of feeling. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xlviii. 96 All which different eleuations of spirit vnto God are conteyned in the name of prayer. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §3 I could never heare the Ave Maria Bell without an elevation . View more context for this quotation 1674 J. Owen Disc. Holy Spirit (1693) 185 The Elevation of Faith to apprehend Divine Power. 1687 Bp. G. Burnet tr. Lactantius Relat. Death Primitive Persecutors 166 Let us then Celebrate Gods Triumph over his Enemies with all the Elevations of Joy. 1687 J. Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 259 We are..to love him with all possible..elevation of spirit. e. Ballet. A dancer's leap or jump (steps of elevation) off the ground; the point attained in such a leap; in modern dance, an act or the action of tightening the muscles and improving the general lift of the body in a dancer's stance. (Also in French form élévation.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > ballet > [noun] > movements entrechat1706 pirouette1706 sissonne1706 batterie1712 cabriole1753 ballonné1760 balancé?1770 brisé1786 ballotté1802 rond de jambe1824 petit battement1828 battement1830 elevation1830 fouetté1830 jeté1830 changement de pied1840 développé1888 temps1890 pas de ciseaux1892 plié1892 changement1905 beat1913 ciseaux1913 glissé1913 ouvert1913 allegro1914 pas de chat1914 pas de cheval1916 soubresaut1916 grand jeté1919 lift1921 toe-dancing1924 pointwork1925 posé1927 jeté en tournant1930 tour1930 extension1934 tour jeté1935 fondu1939 retiré1941 chaîné1946 soutenu1947 passé1948 saut1948 contretemps1952 promenade1953 piqué1954 gargouillade1957 1830 R. Barton tr. C. Blasis Code of Terpsichore (ed. 2) ii. vi. 77 In all your high caperings, develope a manly vigour, and let your steps of elevation be agreeably contrasted, by the rapidity of your terre-à-terre steps. 1889 G. B. Shaw in Star 4 Oct. 2/4 The entrechats, battements, ronds de jambes, arabesques, élévations, and what's-his-names of the art of theatrical dancing. 1934 A. L. Haskell Balletomania xi. 223 She has gained an elevation that allows her to do thirty-six consecutive entrechats six! 1948 Ballet Ann. 2 36 A magnificent soaring elevation. 1948 Ballet Ann. 2 126 A slender dancer of exceptional elevation. 1949 G. Shurr & R. D. Yocom Mod. Dance i. 14 Elevation refers not only to ‘inches off the floor’—as in running, jumping, and leaping—but also to the body lift. 1961 Times 13 Apr. 16/7 She has a lightness and effortless purity, à terre and in elevation. 2. concrete. A rising or swelling (on the skin or surface of the ground); a rising ground, an eminence. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > swelling > [noun] > a swelling or protuberance ampereOE kernelc1000 wenc1000 knot?c1225 swella1250 bulchc1300 bunchc1325 bolninga1340 botcha1387 bouge1398 nodusa1400 oedemaa1400 wax-kernel14.. knobc1405 nodule?a1425 more?c1425 bunnyc1440 papa1450 knurc1460 waxing kernel?c1460 lump?a1500 waxen-kernel1500 bump1533 puff1538 tumour?1541 swelling1542 elevation1543 enlarging1562 knub1563 pimple1582 ganglion1583 button1584 phyma1585 emphysema?1587 flesh-pimple1587 oedem?a1591 burgeon1597 wartle1598 hurtle1599 pough1601 wart1603 extumescence1611 hulch1611 peppernel1613 affusion1615 extumescency1684 jog1715 knibloch1780 tumefaction1802 hunch1803 income1808 intumescence1822 gibber1853 tumescence1859 whetstone1886 tumidity1897 Osler's node1920 the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun] link931 rise1240 motea1300 bentc1405 mote-hill1475 territory1477 height1487 rising1548 raising1572 linch1591 mount1591 swelling1630 up1637 vertex1641 advance1655 ascendant1655 eminency1662 ascent1663 eminence1670 swell1764 elevation1799 embreastment1799 upwith1819 lift1825 salita1910 turtle-back1913 upwarp1917 upslope1920 whaleback1928 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. ii. f. 23/2 Pruna hath not so great eleuation as ignis persicus. 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 288/2 If..the Patient hath no externalle disease, nor anye eleuatione. 1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 285 Secondary strata present..elevations, from an original elevation in the fundamental stone. 1825 T. B. Macaulay Milton in Edinb. Rev. Aug. 324 Nooks and dells, beautiful as fairy land, are embosomed in its most rugged and gigantic elevations. 1848 S. C. Bartlett Egypt to Palestine (1879) x. 221 The remaining part of the elevation seemed like a small hill placed upon a terrace. †3. Sublimation; vaporization by heat. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > [noun] > fumes or vapour > action of being emitted or emitting exhalation1398 smoking1530 fuminga1535 fumity1572 elevation1605 fumidity1623 avolation1650 fumosity1650 fumidness1727 steaming1819 outgassing1919 off-gassing1979 the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > sublimation sublimationa1393 sublimingc1405 altificationa1550 elevation1605 meteorismus1848 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke ii. i. 103 The elevations and sublimations of the spirits of the said salt. 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate Termes 342 Eleuation is subtiliation, when spirituall parts from the corporall..by the force of fire are eleuated. 1651 J. French Art Distillation i. 10 Elevation, is the rising of any matter in manner of fume, or vapour by vertue of heat. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iv. ii. 301 An elevation or rectification of some parts of that Matter. 4. transferred. a. A raising or increase (of temperature). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > becoming hot or warm > increase in temperature elevation1882 1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 825 The slight elevation of temperature in the forenoon. b. A quickening (of the pulse); a raising of the animal spirits. Hence (dialect or nonstandard) that which raises the spirits, a ‘pick-me-up’. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > circulation > pulsation > [noun] > types of pulsation throb1597 fluttering1719 elevation1725 frequency1732 wallop1787 bradycardia1890 tricrotism1891 the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [noun] > that which or one who refreshes or invigorates spice?c1225 comfort1377 refresherc1450 refreshment1532 reviver1542 sauce1561 salt1579 refocillation1608 whettera1625 fillip1699 stimulant1728 stimulation1733 yeast1769 stimulus1791 inspiriter1821 stimulatory1821 refreshener1824 boost1825 bracer1826 young blood1830 freshener1838 invigoratorc1842 blow1849 tonic1849 elevation1850 stimulator1851 breather1876 pick-me-up1876 a shot in the arm1922 1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 88 Elevation or Depression of the Pulse. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. xii. 183 What's elevation..Opium, bor' alive, opium. 5. a. The raising (of the voice) in loudness (? also in pitch). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [noun] > power or range of voice > loudness of voice > raising of voice elevation1605 uplifting1824 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Pp4^v The consideration of the Accidents of Wordes, which are Measure, sound, and Eleuation, or Accent. View more context for this quotation 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 45 Prolongation of Vowels, or Elevation of voice in the pronouncing of any syllable, Accent. †b. concrete. The stressed syllable of a metrical foot; = arsis n. (rare). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > beat > rhythmical or metrical stress accent1550 stroke1576 impression1643 percussion1674 pulse1677 ictus1752 arsis?1775 elevation1776 thesis1864 upbeat1883 1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 73 They [sc. feet] were always divided into two parts..the first of which was called ἀρσις, elevation. †6. Music. One of the ‘graces’ in old English music. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > ornament > [noun] > grace > grace-note > specific elevation1659 port de voix1729 appoggiatura1753 leaning-note1811 warbler1875 Nachschlag1879 1659 C. Simpson Division-violist 9 Sometimes a Note is graced by sliding it from the Third below, called an Elevation, now something obsolete. †7. The raising or rearing (of plants). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > [noun] governaila1400 husbanding?1440 nursing?1533 culture1580 cultivation1637 elevation1658 growth1663 rearing1693 growing1889 1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 38 The elevation and raising of Trees. 8. The action of raising in rank or dignity; the state or fact of being elevated in rank. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > elevation or exaltation in rank uprising1430 prelationa1450 sublimationc1450 ascendant1607 rise1608 superelevation1654 evection1658 elevation1701 1701 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) V. 4 The duke of Berwick was gone..to compliment the pope upon his elevation. a1704 J. Locke Conduct of Understanding §3 in Posthumous Wks. (1706) 9 Angels and separate Spirits..in their several degrees of Elevation above us, may be endowed with more comprehensive Faculties. 1827 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (1873) 2nd Ser. 541 A sudden elevation in life..smells us out, and often perniciously. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. viii. 270 The many men of talent who owed their elevation to Wolsey. II. The height to which anything is elevated. 9. Of angular magnitude: a. Astronomy. The altitude or angular height of the pole, or of any heavenly body, above the horizon. †Of a place: The elevation of the pole at that place; the latitude (obsolete). Also in Dialling, the angle made by the gnomon with the horizon (which is equal to the latitude of the place). ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > position of heavenly body > [noun] > altitude altitudec1386 elevationc1400 height1556 the world > the earth > geodetic references > [noun] > latitude parallela1544 sublevation1556 height1585 latitude1622 degree1647 elevation1686 geographical latitude1712 geographic latitude1750 c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §23. 32 Tak ther the eleuacioun of thi pool. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 37 Cosmaghraphie..sal declair the..eleuatione..of the sone mune, and of the sternis. 1593 T. Fale Horologiographia f. 10 Before Sunne rising and after Sunne setting in our Elevation. 1650 J. Howell Instr. Forren Travell (new ed.) App. 138 The distance between places may be known by the elevation of the pole. 1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 471 Under the Elivation of oure Pole. 1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 247 The Elevation of Erivan is in 40 Deg. 15 Min. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Elevation of the Pole (in Dialling) is the Angle which the Style..makes with the Substylar Line. 1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §69. 373 The Elevation of the Pole in that place therefore is also given. 1877 G. F. Chambers Handbk. Descr. Astron. (ed. 3) 915 Elevation of the Pole. b. The angle made with the horizontal by any line of direction; spec. the angle at which a gun is elevated. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > [noun] > (angle of) elevation random?a1560 mounture1628 elevation1692 set1844 1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) ii. iv. 93 If his Piece be mounted to any Elevation, he need not put a Wad after the shot. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Range The bomb, being fired at an elevation of 45°. 1798 Capt. Millar in Ld. Nelson Disp. & Lett. (1846) VII. Introd. 155 I observed their shot..and knowing that..they would not have coolness enough to change their elevation, I closed them suddenly. 10. a. A particular height or altitude above a given level; as the height of a locality above the level of the sea; of a building, etc., above the level of the ground. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > [noun] > above a certain level heightc1290 highheadc1300 higha1398 altitudea1449 sideness?a1475 alturea1547 pitch1590 mounture1613 eminency1625 eminence1658 haut1686 elevation1732 the world > space > relative position > high position > [noun] > height above the ground or sea level heightc1290 altitudea1449 absolute height1729 elevation1856 upwardness1896 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. iii. ix. 181 The particular Distance, Position, Elevation, or Dimension of the Fabric. 1830 J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. (rev. ed.) 4 In sheltered groups they will reach an elevation of eighty or a hundred feet. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) ii. 129 Jerusalem is of nearly the same elevation as the highest ground in England. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §2. 19 What was snow at the higher elevations changed to rain lower down. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1822 T. Webster Imison's Elem. Sci. & Art (new ed.) II. 391 He will perceive to what an elevation the excellence of the art can raise him. 11. concrete. A drawing of a building or other object made in projection on a vertical plane, as distinguished from a ground plan. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [noun] > a plan or diagram > elevation upright1604 orthography1645 uprising1669 elevation1731 orthograph1875 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Elevation (in Architect.) a draught or description of the face or principal side of a building, called also the Upright. 1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) IV. vi. 244 The plan and elevations of the late earl of Leicester's house. 1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic xi. 281 An elevation of the automaton, as seen from behind. 1847 S. Brooks (title) City, Town and Country Architecture, designs for Street Elevations, Shop Fronts, etc. 1874 R. St. J. Tyrwhitt Our Sketching Club 28 That's the front of your block which faces you,—the ‘elevation’ they call it. 12. As an abstract quality: Height, loftiness. a. literal. Of a building, etc. ΚΠ 1891 N.E.D. at Elevation Mod. A building of imposing elevation. b. figurative. Of literary style: Grandeur, dignity; formerly also in plural, instances of elevation. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > loftiness or grandiloquence magnificence1481 stateliness1550 sublimity1581 grandiloquence1589 sublimenessa1599 magniloquency1615 magniloquence1623 elevationa1639 rotundity1655 grandiloquy1656 magniloquy1656 grandeur1657 loftiness1663 magnificentness1727 altiloquence1775 grandiosity1801 grandioso1816 grandiloquent1829 ororotundity1831 ororotundoism1840 orotundity1909 a1639 H. Wotton Parallel betweene Earle of Essex & Duke of Buckingham (1641) 8 His Stile..wanted a little Elevation. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 335 The Elevation of an Expression in an Ancient Author. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 1 (1753) I Some [epic poets].. imagined themselves entitled..to Elevations not allowed in common Life. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 126 A return to..the classic form, its dignity, elevation, and severity. c. figurative. Of character and sentiments: Nobleness, loftiness of tone. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > [noun] > nobility of character or sentiments earlshipOE greatness1340 noblenessa1382 hautesse1399 grandeur1656 height1662 elevationa1680 a1680 J. Glanvill Serm. iii. (R.) They..pitied the poor and carnal world..all that were not of their conceited pitch and elevation. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 87. ⁋7 When nothing is necessary to elevation but detection of the follies of others. 1868 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals II. i. 72 Elevation of character constituted the Roman ideal of perfection. 1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times III. xlvi. 407 His character was somewhat wanting in the dignity of moral elevation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1400
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