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<p><b>2.</b> <def>To raise to a higher station; to promote; <as>as, to <ex>elevate</ex> to an office, or to a high social position</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To raise from a depressed state; to animate; to cheer; <as>as, to <ex>elevate</ex> the spirits</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To exalt; to ennoble; to dignify; <as>as, to <ex>elevate</ex> the mind or character</as>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To raise to a higher pitch, or to a greater degree of loudness; -- said of sounds; <as>as, to <ex>elevate</ex> the voice</as>.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.</def> <mark>[Colloq. & Sportive]</mark> "The <i>elevated</i> cavaliers sent for two tubs of merry stingo."

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.</def> <mark>[A Latin meaning]</mark> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Jer. Taylor.</i>

<cs><col>To elevate a piece</col> <fld>(Gun.)</fld>, <cd>to raise the muzzle; to lower the breech.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- To exalt; dignify; ennoble; erect; raise; hoist; heighten; elate; cheer; flush; excite; animate.</syn>

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<hw>El"e*va`ted</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; <as>as, <ex>elevated</ex> thoughts</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Elevated railway</col>, <cd>one in which the track is raised considerably above the ground, especially a city railway above the line of street travel.</cd></cs>

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<hw>El"e*va`ted*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being elevated.</def>

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<hw>El`e*va"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>elevatio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>\'82l\'82vation</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; <as>as, the <ex>elevation</ex> of grain; <ex>elevation</ex> to a throne; <ex>elevation</ex> of mind, thoughts, or character.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Condition of being elevated; height; exaltation.</def> "Degrees of <i>elevation</i> above us."

<i>Locke.</i>

<blockquote>His style . . . wanted a little <b>elevation</b>. <i>Sir H. Wotton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station; <as>as, an <ex>elevation</ex> of the ground</as>; a hill.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Astron.)</fld> <def>The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; <as>as, the <ex>elevation</ex> of the pole, or of a star</as>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Dialing)</fld> <def>The angle which the style makes with the substylar line.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Gunnery)</fld> <def>The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line o<?/ sight; -- distinguished from <i>direction</i>.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Drawing)</fld> <def>A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; -- called by the ancients the <i>orthography</i>.</def>

<cs><col>Angle of elevation</col> <fld>(Geodesy)</fld>, <cd>the angle which an ascending line makes with a horizontal plane.</cd> -- <col>Elevation of the host</col> <fld>(R. C. Ch.)</fld>, <cd>that part of the Mass in which the priest raises the host above his head for the people to adore.</cd></cs>

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