elevate

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To raise (something) to a higher position.

   • The doctor told me elevating my legs would help reduce the swelling.
   • The Grace or Blessynge of the table to be sayed of chyldren standynge before it, thyr handes eleuated and ioyned to gyder
   • She had one eye declined for the loss of her husband, another elevated that the oracle was fulfilled: […]
2. 2

   To promote (someone) to a higher rank.

   • Hard Fate of Greatness, We so highly Elevated Are more expos’d to Censure than the little ones,
   • Nothing can set the regal character in a more contemptible point of view, than the various crimes that have elevated men to the supreme dignity.
   • […] that’s the way things go when you elevate mediocre people to positions of authority.
3. 3

   To confer honor or nobility on (someone).

   • The traditional worldview elevates man as the pinnacle of creation.
   • For loftie type of honour through the glaunce Of enuies dart, is downe in dust prostrate;
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   1. 4

      To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value.

      • A talented chef can elevate everyday ingredients into gourmet delights.
      • […] if you encourage a young Beginner, who knows but he may elevate his stile a little,
      • He is the true artist, who copies nature; but, where he finds her mean, elevates her from his own ideas of beauty.
   2. 5

      To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things.

      • […] the devout Christian improves the Blessings he receives of this inferiour World, to elevate his mind above it:
      • On the whole I would regard serious art as a means to elevate the emotions and educate the spirit […]
   3. 6

      To increase the intensity or degree of (something).

      • Some drugs have the side effect of elevating your blood sugar level.
   4. 7

      To lift the spirits of (someone)

      • […] Hope elevates, and joy Bright’ns his Crest,
   5. 8

      To intoxicate in a slight degree

      To intoxicate in a slight degree; to make (someone) tipsy.

      • Steele entertained them till he was tipsy; when the same wine that stupified him, only served to elevate Addison, who took up the ball just as Steele dropt it, and kept it up for the rest of the evening.
      • [Johnson,] from drinking only water, supposed every body who drank wine to be elevated
      • […] the elevated Cavaliers […] sent to Roger Raine of the Peveril Arms […] for two tubs of merry stingo
   6. 9

      To attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc.

   7. 10

      Elevated, raised aloft.

      • Others apart sat on a Hill retir’d, In thoughts more elevate,

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