elevate

Etymology
From, past participle of , from + , from ; see levity and lever.

Verb

 * 1)  To raise (something) to a higher position.
 * 2) * 1750,, , No.25, 12June, 1750, Volume1, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, p.216,
 * We know that a few strokes of the axe will lop a cedar; but what arts of cultivation can elevate a shrub?
 * 1)  To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
 * 2)  To temporarily grant a program additional security privileges to the system to perform a privileged action (usually on the program's request).
 * 3)  To confer honor or nobility on (someone).
 * 4) * 1591,, “Virgils Gnat” in Complaints, London: William Ponsonbie,
 * That none, whom fortune freely doth aduaunce,
 * Himselfe therefore to heauen should eleuate:
 * For loftie type of honour through the glaunce
 * Of enuies dart, is downe in dust prostrate;
 * 1)  To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value.
 * 2)  To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things.
 * 3)  To increase the intensity or degree of (something).
 * 4)  To increase the loudness of (a sound, especially one's voice).
 * 5)  To lift the spirits of (someone)
 * 6) * 1759,, , Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and J. Bell, Part1, Section2, Chapter1, p.20,
 * It gives us the spleen to see another too happy or too much elevated, as we call it, with any little piece of good fortune.
 * 1)  To intoxicate in a slight degree; to make (someone) tipsy.
 * 2)  To attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc.
 * 3) * 1660,, Ductor Dubitantium, London: Richard Royston, Volume1, Chapter4, Rule2, p.126,
 * the Arabian Physicians endevour to elevate and lessen the thing [i.e. belief in the ], by saying, It is not wholly beyond the force of nature, that a Virgin should conceive
 * 1) * 1591,, “Virgils Gnat” in Complaints, London: William Ponsonbie,
 * That none, whom fortune freely doth aduaunce,
 * Himselfe therefore to heauen should eleuate:
 * For loftie type of honour through the glaunce
 * Of enuies dart, is downe in dust prostrate;
 * 1)  To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value.
 * 2)  To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things.
 * 3)  To increase the intensity or degree of (something).
 * 4)  To increase the loudness of (a sound, especially one's voice).
 * 5)  To lift the spirits of (someone)
 * 6) * 1759,, , Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and J. Bell, Part1, Section2, Chapter1, p.20,
 * It gives us the spleen to see another too happy or too much elevated, as we call it, with any little piece of good fortune.
 * 1)  To intoxicate in a slight degree; to make (someone) tipsy.
 * 2)  To attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc.
 * 3) * 1660,, Ductor Dubitantium, London: Richard Royston, Volume1, Chapter4, Rule2, p.126,
 * the Arabian Physicians endevour to elevate and lessen the thing [i.e. belief in the ], by saying, It is not wholly beyond the force of nature, that a Virgin should conceive
 * 1)  To increase the loudness of (a sound, especially one's voice).
 * 2)  To lift the spirits of (someone)
 * 3) * 1759,, , Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and J. Bell, Part1, Section2, Chapter1, p.20,
 * It gives us the spleen to see another too happy or too much elevated, as we call it, with any little piece of good fortune.
 * 1)  To intoxicate in a slight degree; to make (someone) tipsy.
 * 2)  To attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc.
 * 3) * 1660,, Ductor Dubitantium, London: Richard Royston, Volume1, Chapter4, Rule2, p.126,
 * the Arabian Physicians endevour to elevate and lessen the thing [i.e. belief in the ], by saying, It is not wholly beyond the force of nature, that a Virgin should conceive
 * 1) * 1759,, , Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and J. Bell, Part1, Section2, Chapter1, p.20,
 * It gives us the spleen to see another too happy or too much elevated, as we call it, with any little piece of good fortune.
 * 1)  To intoxicate in a slight degree; to make (someone) tipsy.
 * 2)  To attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc.
 * 3) * 1660,, Ductor Dubitantium, London: Richard Royston, Volume1, Chapter4, Rule2, p.126,
 * the Arabian Physicians endevour to elevate and lessen the thing [i.e. belief in the ], by saying, It is not wholly beyond the force of nature, that a Virgin should conceive
 * 1)  To attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc.
 * 2) * 1660,, Ductor Dubitantium, London: Richard Royston, Volume1, Chapter4, Rule2, p.126,
 * the Arabian Physicians endevour to elevate and lessen the thing [i.e. belief in the ], by saying, It is not wholly beyond the force of nature, that a Virgin should conceive
 * the Arabian Physicians endevour to elevate and lessen the thing [i.e. belief in the ], by saying, It is not wholly beyond the force of nature, that a Virgin should conceive

Derived terms

 * re-elevate

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Azerbaijani: ucaltmaq, yüksəltmək
 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto: levi,, plialtigi
 * Estonian: tõstma
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὑψόω
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: hækka
 * Irish: ardaigh
 * Italian:
 * Latin: levo, elevo, extollō
 * Mansi:
 * Northern Mansi: а̄лмаяӈкве, а̄лмуӈкве
 * Maori: whakatairanga, kōranga
 * Old English: āhebban
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit: रोपयति
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Ugaritic: 𐎐𐎌𐎀


 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto: ĝojigi


 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto: pligrandigi, plialtigi
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Spanish:

Adjective

 * 1)  Elevated; raised aloft.
 * 2) * 1548,, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke, London: Richard Grafton, HenryVII, year6,
 * The sayde crosse was .iii. tymes deuoutly eleuate, and at euery exaltacion, ye Moores beyng within the cytie, roared, howled and cryed,