Also 4 elaat, elat, elayt. [ad. L. ēlāt-us, pa. pple. of efferre to bring or carry out; to elevate, raise. Cf. OF. elat proud.]
† 1. Lifted, raised. Obs. rare.
a. 1730. Fenton, Let. Knight Sable Shield, in Anderson, Poets, VII. 663. With upper lip elate, he grins.
2. fig. Of condition, and of persons with regard to their condition: Exalted, lofty. Of feelings, etc.: Lofty, proud.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Monk’s T., 177. This kyng of kynges proud was and elaat [v.r. elat(e, elayt].
1430. Lydg., Chron. Troy, I. vi. Whom than he fonde … With sceptre in hande ful pompous and elate.
14[?]. Epiph., in Tundale’s Vis., 113. O pompe elate with thy cheres bold.
1610. Histrio-m., IV. 117. Thy high fate Shall not discerne a fortune more Elate.
1626. T. H[awkins], trans. Caussin’s Holy Crt., 58. This Courage … is powerfully elate.
1649. Selden, Laws Eng., II. xxxiii. (1739), 148. Two Kings we have at once in view, both of them of an elate spirit.
1755. T. H. Croker, Ariosto’s Orl. Fur., XLIII. lxi. II. 339. Shall this little burgh grow up to make A city ample, pompous and elate?
1833. Chalmers, Const. Man (1835), I. ii. 117. There is an elate independence of soul.
b. Of persons: Inspired (as with joy or hope), in high spirits, exultant, flushed (as with success or victory).
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb. (1702), II. I. 116. An Army elate with victory.
1725. Pope, Odyss., I. 176. A brutal crowd, With insolence, and wine, elate and lowd.
1839. Keightley, Hist. Eng., II. 67. The Romish party in England were elate.
1870. Disraeli, Lothair, II. xv. 164–5. The ladies returned with elate and animated faces.
