aloft

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It was the sensation of being borne aloft--aloft--by a force external to myself--such a sensation as might possibly tingle through an earthworm when lifted into illimitable airy heights by the strongly-daring pinions of an eagle.

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  1. adverb In or into a high place; high or higher up.
  2. adverb Nautical At or toward the upper rigging.
  3. preposition On or above: birds perching aloft telephone wires.

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  1. Middle English, from Old Norse ā lopt : ā, in; see an- in Indo-European roots + lopt, air.

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  1. from Middle English aloft, a loft, o loft (accusative), alofte, a lofte, o lofte (dative), in fuller form on the loft, on the lofte, inne the lofte, from Icelandic ā lopt (accusative of motion), ā lopti (dative of position), on high, aloft, literally in the air: ā = Anglo-Saxon an, on, Middle English a, o, on, in, on, to; lopt (pron. loft) = Anglo-Saxon lyft, Middle English lyft, luft, lift (English lift), the air, the sky, upper floor, loft: see loft and lift, the air.
 

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