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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To move (something) to a higher place or position from a lower one; lift.
  2. v. To increase the amplitude, intensity, or volume of.
  3. v. To promote to a higher rank.
  4. v. To raise to a higher moral, cultural, or intellectual level.
  5. v. To lift the spirits of; elate. See Synonyms at lift.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To move or cause to move from a lower to a higher level, place, or position; raise; lift; lift up: as, to elevate the host in the service of the mass; to elevate the voice.
  2. To raise to a higher state or station; exalt; raise from a low, common, or primary state, as by training or education; raise from or above low conceptions: as, to elevate a man to an office; to elevate the character.
  3. To excite; cheer; animate: as, to elevate the spirits.
  4. Hence To intoxicate slightly; render somewhat tipsy.
  5. To make light or unimportant; diminish the weight or importance of.
  6. Synonyms To lift up, uplift.
  7. To promote, ennoble.
  8. 1-3. Lift, Exalt, etc. See raise.
  9. Raised; elevated.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To raise (something) to a higher position; to lift.
  2. v. transitive To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
  3. v. transitive To ennoble or honour/honor (someone).
  4. v. transitive To lift someone's spirits; to elate.
  5. v. transitive To increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Poetic Elevated; raised aloft.
  2. v. To bring from a lower place to a higher; to lift up; to raise
  3. v. To raise to a higher station; to promote.
  4. v. To raise from a depressed state; to animate; to cheer.
  5. v. To exalt; to ennoble; to dignify.
  6. v. To raise to a higher pitch, or to a greater degree of loudness; -- said of sounds.
  7. v. Colloq. & Sportive To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.
  8. v. A Latin meaning, obsolete To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. raise in rank or condition
  2. v. raise from a lower to a higher position
  3. v. give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

Etymologies

  1. From Latin elevatus, past participle of elevare ("to raise, lift up"), from e ("out") + levare ("to make light, to lift"), from levis ("light"); see levity and lever. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English elevaten, from Latin ēlevāre, ēlevāt- : ē-, ex-, up; see ex- + levāre, to raise; see legwh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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