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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

... laugh at that remark, which seemed to surprise Bumpus, for he looked with elevated eyebrows at each of the ...

— The Boy Scouts in the Maine Woods - The New Test for the Silver Fox Patrol • Herbert Carter

... wonderment and surprise, and I attributed this wonderment to a desire upon the part of Protestantism to make fun and villify the teachings of the Catholic Church, but I now realize that this bewilderment came from minds which had been elevated far above the cungerings of the Catholic Church, and I am now surprised that the Protestants who visit Catholic churches are not more bewildered and mystified, as the teachings of Protestantism are based upon ...

— Thirty Years In Hell - Or, From Darkness to Light • Bernard Fresenborg

... with still more marked and lofty distinctness, "John Wesley and Mary Em-me-line." It seemed to Mr. Hamlin that human accents could not convey a more significant and elevated ignoring of some implied impropriety in his invitation. He was for ...

— Trent's Trust and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... fortune, either of peace or war. In this instance, a sub-chief was building a new house, and the frame work was inclosed in rough boards with no floor laid. There is never but one entrance to an Indian hut. This is in front, and elevated several feet from the ground, so that you must go down from the door-sill inside as well as out. No windows were yet in the building, and it was really in a crude state. These grand festivities last five days, and this was the second ...

— Oregon, Washington and Alaska; Sights and Scenes for the Tourist • E. L. Lomax

... factories, all places where girls worked she watched that way. By the hundreds, thousands, she saw them filling the city's streets as through the long summer one hot day after another drew to a close. Often she would crowd into the street cars they were crowding into, rush with them for the elevated trains, or follow them across the river and see them disappear into boarding-house and rooming-house, those hot, crowded places waiting to receive them after the hot, crowded day. Sometimes she would go for lunch to the places she saw them going to—always searching, ...

— The Visioning • Susan Glaspell

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