exalt

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To raise in rank, character, or status; elevate: exalted the shepherd to the rank of grand vizier.
2. v. To glorify, praise, or honor.
3. v. To increase the effect or intensity of; heighten: works of art that exalt the imagination.
4. v. Obsolete To fill with sublime emotion; elate.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To raise high; lift to a great or unusual altitude; elevate in space.
2. To elevate in degree or consideration; bring to a higher or more intense state or condition; raise up, as in rank, character, or quality: as, to exalt a person to a high office; to exalt the passions.
3. To attribute or accord exaltation to; make high or elevated in estimation or expression; magnify; glorify; praise; extol.
4. In chem., to purify; refine: as, to exalt the juices or the qualities of bodies.
5. Synonyms Elevate, Lift, etc. See raise.
6. To ennoble, dignify, aggrandize.
7. To glorify.

Wiktionary

1. v. To honor; to hold in high esteem.
2. v. To raise in rank, status etc, to elevate.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.
2. v. To elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote.
3. v. To elevate by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol; to glorify.
4. v. To lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate.
5. v. To elevate the tone of, as of the voice or a musical instrument.
6. v. To render pure or refined; to intensify or concentrate.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. raise in rank, character, or status
2. v. praise, glorify, or honor
3. v. fill with sublime emotion
4. v. heighten or intensify