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verb

Elevate v. t. (past & past part. elevated; pres. part. elevating)

To bring from a lower place to a higher; to lift up; to raise; as, to elevate a weight, a flagstaff, etc.

To raise to a higher station; to promote; as, to elevate to an office, or to a high social position.

To raise from a depressed state; to animate; to cheer; as, to elevate the spirits.

To exalt; to ennoble; to dignify; as, to elevate the mind or character.

To raise to a higher pitch, or to a greater degree of loudness; said of sounds; as, to elevate the voice.

To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy. (Colloq. & Sportive) "The elevated cavaliers sent for two tubs of merry stingo."

To lessen; to detract from; to disparage. (A Latin meaning) (Obs.)

To elevate a piece (Gun.), to raise the muzzle; to lower the breech.

Synonyms: To exalt; dignify; ennoble; erect; raise; hoist; heighten; elate; cheer; flush; excite; animate.

adjective

Elevated adj. Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated thoughts.

Elevated railway, one in which the track is raised considerably above the ground, especially a city railway above the line of street travel.

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Etymology of 'Elevated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Elevated" Quotes from Famous Books

... the water like a gull with its wings spread. In the low light Madeira was nothing but a blot on the sky-line. The crew were forward, with the solitary exception of the man steering the vessel from his elevated position on the bridge; and sitting as they were, abaft the deck-cabin, the two were utterly alone between the great silence of the stars and of the sea. She looked into his face, and it was tender towards her—that night was ...

— Dawn • H. Rider Haggard

... picked the boy up three years before, and since that time he had never known him to be satisfied. At the present moment, Terry was standing at the tiller, while Biler was at the masthead, to which he had climbed to get rid of the disappointments of the world below, in a more elevated sphere, and from his lofty perch he was gazing with a hungry eye forth into space, and from time to time pulling bits of dried codfish from his pocket, and thrusting them into ...

— The Lily and the Cross - A Tale of Acadia • James De Mille

... of a wall. A rounded pebble, often hardly larger than one's fist, one of those cobbles with which the waters of the glacial period covered the terraces of the Rhone Valley, forms the most popular support. The extreme abundance of these sites might easily influence the Bee's choice: all our less elevated uplands, all our arid, thyme-clad grounds are nothing but water-worn stones cemented with red earth. In the valleys, the Chalicodoma has also the pebbles of the mountain-streams at her disposal. Near Orange, for ...

— The Mason-bees • J. Henri Fabre

... sat the egg gently upon the top of the stone wall, where there was a little hollow; and Humpty was delighted, for from his elevated perch he could see much ...

— Mother Goose in Prose • L. Frank Baum

... district lately opened up for colonisation. At its southern end the Red River of the north flows into it, on the banks of which a British settlement has long been established. Several streams, however, make their way into Hudson Bay. Between it and Lake Superior is an elevated ridge of about 1500 feet in height; the streams on the west falling into Lake Winnipeg, while those which flow towards the east reach ...

— The Western World - Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North - and South America • W.H.G. Kingston

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