Elate v. t. (past & past part. elated; pres. part. elating)
1.
To raise; to exalt. (R.) "By the potent sun elated high."
2.
To exalt the spirit of; to fill with confidence or exultation; to elevate or flush with success; to puff up; to make proud. "Foolishly elated by spiritual pride.""You ought not be elated at the chance mishaps of your enemies."
... passed in a struggle for existence, which was not so bitter to him as it might have been to another man, for he was sustained by ever-elating "great expectations." That he was pinched for means of living, there is no doubt. In 1623 he issued a prospectus of his "General Historie," in which he said: "These observations are all I have for the expenses of a thousand pounds and the loss of eighteen years' time, besides ... — Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
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