elevate

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Middle English elevaten (“to raise up, erect; to elate, inflate (e.g. with pride); (alchemy) to vaporize; (of a bone, excressence, blood vessel) to protrude”), from elevat(e) (“(in physical elevation, in rank, in altitude above the horizon) high”, also used as the past participle of elevaten) +‎ -en (verb-forming suffix), further from Latin ēlevātus, the perfect passive participle of ēlevō (“to raise, lift up”), from ē- (“out”) + levō (“to make light, to lift”), from levis (“light”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); see levity and lever. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈɛləveɪt/ ==== Verb ==== elevate (third-person singular simple present elevates, present participle elevating, simple past and past participle elevated) (transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position. Synonyms: lift, raise Antonyms: drop, lower 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 25, 12 June, 1750, Volume 1, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, p. 216,[2] We know that a few strokes of the axe will lop a cedar; but what arts of cultivation can elevate a shrub? (transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank. Synonyms: exalt, promote; see also Thesaurus:aggrandize Antonyms: demote; see also Thesaurus:demean (computing) To temporarily grant a program additional security privileges to the system to perform a privileged action (usually on the program's request). (transitive) To confer honor or nobility on (someone). Synonyms: ennoble, exalt, honor; see also Thesaurus:aggrandize 1591, Edmund Spenser, “Virgils Gnat” in Complaints, London: William Ponsonbie,[5] 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; (transitive) To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value. (transitive) To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things. (transitive) To increase the intensity or degree of (something). Synonyms: increase, raise; see also Thesaurus:increase Antonyms: decrease, diminish, lower, reduce; see also Thesaurus:decrease (dated) To increase the loudness of (a sound, especially one's voice). (transitive, obsolete) To lift the spirits of (someone) Synonyms: cheer up, elate; see also Thesaurus:gladden Antonyms: depress, sadden; see also Thesaurus:sadden 1759, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and J. Bell, Part 1, Section 2, Chapter 1, p. 20,[9] 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. (dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to make (someone) tipsy. (obsolete, Latinism) To attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc. Synonyms: lessen, detract, disparage; see also Thesaurus:debase, Thesaurus:demean 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, London: Richard Royston, Volume 1, Chapter 4, Rule 2, p. 126,[11] […] the Arabian Physicians […] endevour to elevate and lessen the thing [i.e. belief in the virgin birth of Jesus], by saying, It is not wholly beyond the force of nature, that a Virgin should conceive […] ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== elevatable elevation elevator elevatory ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English elevat(e) (“(in physical elevation, in rank, in altitude above the horizon) high”, also used as the past participle of elevaten), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Cognate with French élevé. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈɛləvət/ ==== Adjective ==== elevate (comparative more elevate, superlative most elevate) (obsolete) Elevated, raised aloft. 1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke, London: Richard Grafton, Henry VII, year 6,[12] The sayde crosse was .iii. tymes deuoutly eleuate, and at euery exaltacion, ye Moores beyng within the cytie, roared, howled and cryed, ==== Further reading ==== “elevate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “elevate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. == Italian == === Etymology 1 === ==== Verb ==== elevate inflection of elevare: second-person plural present indicative second-person plural imperative === Etymology 2 === ==== Participle ==== elevate f pl feminine plural of elevato == Latin == === Verb === ēlevāte second-person plural present active imperative of ēlevō == Spanish == === Verb === elevate second-person singular voseo imperative of elevar combined with te