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verb

Exalt v. t. (past & past part. exalted; pres. part. exalting)

1.

To raise high; to elevate; to lift up. "I will exalt my throne above the stars of God." "Exalt thy towery head, and lift thine eyes"

2.

To elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote; as, to exalt a prince to the throne, a citizen to the presidency. "Righteousness exalteth a nation." "He that humbleth himself shall be exalted."

3.

To elevate by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol; to glorify. "Exalt ye the Lord." "In his own grace he doth exalt himself."

4.

To lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate. "They who thought they got whatsoever he lost were mightily exalted."

5.

To elevate the tone of, as of the voice or a musical instrument. "Now Mars, she said, let Fame exalt her voice."

6.

(Alchem.) To render pure or refined; to intensify or concentrate; as, to exalt the juices of bodies. "With chemic art exalts the mineral powers."

adjective

Exalted adj. Raised to lofty height; elevated; extolled; refined; dignified; sublime. "Wiser far than Solomon, Of more exalted mind." "Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny." "The exaltedness of some minds."

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"Exalted" Quotes from Famous Books

... vision of Sir Hudson Lowe, seemed to be necessary, but to treat the Emperor as though he were in that category was a perversion of all decency, and no one but a Hudson Lowe would have attempted it. It is quite certain that the dethroned arbiter of Europe never, in his most exalted period, treated any of his subordinates with such airs of majesty as St. Helena's Governor ...

— The Tragedy of St. Helena • Walter Runciman

... to relate what mirth, what sport, what diversion, the grovelling inhabitants here on earth give to the above-seated gods in heaven: for these exalted deities spend their fasting sober hours in listening to those petitions that are offered up, and in succouring such as they are appealed to by for redress; but when they are a little entered at ...

— In Praise of Folly - Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts • Desiderius Erasmus

... as heroick a Pitch of Virtue as human Nature can arrive at. If the Tenour of our Actions have any other Motive than the Desire to be pleasing in the Eye of the Deity, it will necessarily follow that we must be more than Men, if we are not too much exalted in Prosperity and depressed in Adversity: But the Christian World has a Leader, the Contemplation of whose Life and Sufferings must administer Comfort in Affliction, while the Sense of his Power and Omnipotence must give them Humiliation ...

— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

... inexpressible joy of us all; partly on account of his cavalry, which to be sure, was the handsomest we had ever seen; but much more on account of himself, of whom we had heard that, in deep art and undaunted courage, he was a second Marion. — This, our high opinion of him, was greatly exalted by his own gallant conduct, for he had been with us but a few days before he proposed the surprise of Georgetown, which was very cordially concurred ...

— The Life of General Francis Marion • Mason Locke Weems

... counted through the line of Solomon, but must be some other way. Seemingly God's promise to bring the mighty deliverer through the line of David had failed, because of Solomon's failure. But not so. David had another son, whom the Lord used. Solomon's line had been exalted. Now this line must be abased, and the lower ...

— The Harp of God • J. F. Rutherford

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