liftedadj.

1559 J. Aylmer Harborowe sig. R3 Let vs daylye call to God with lifted vp heartes and handes.

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxxix. 38 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 132 Thy lifted hand a might of wonder showeth.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 866 In the Cloud a Bow Conspicuous with three lifted colours gay. View more context for this quotation

1669 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa VI. iii. v. 36 [She] endeavour'd to stop his lifted up Arm, from falling on me.

1703 N. Rowe Ulysses iv. i. 1803 Provoke the lifted Sword and pointed Spear.

1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. II. xix. 93 His Grandfather..is therein assured of the immediate Restitution of his Lifted, that is, stolen Cows.

1819 W. Wordsworth Waggoner iv. 151 The morning light in grace Strikes upon his lifted face.

1859 J. Ruskin Two Paths iv. 186 All their changing grace of depressed or lifted pinnacle.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ (title) The lifted veil.

1883 J. E. Hopkins Autumn Swallows, Bormus Down from the lifted cornfield trips The child.

1894 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche (rev. ed.) xxv. 26 The last red ray Fled from her lifted arm.

1928 G. B. Shaw Let. 31 May in To a Young Actress (1960) 127 How will you face old age: With a ‘lifted’ face, with grease paints and an iceball and rouge, with peroxided hair, an old hag..pretending to be a young witch.