ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] Uplifted, raised; proud, exalted. Cf. senses of vb.

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1615.  G. Sandys, Trav., 31. The Talismanni with elated voices (for they vse no bels) do congregate the people.

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a. 1658.  Osborne, Characters, &c. (1673), 617. The Rabble, for want of a more elated Prudence, imagining their Governours to proceed … from some Diviner Extraction than their Own.

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1757.  Dyer, Fleece, I. 674. Elated man, forgetful of his charge.

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  ¶ With a word-play on the musical term ELA.

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a. 1653.  G. Daniel, Idyll, Cerem., 10. Accents ela-ted to the Sharpe Clangor of Warre.

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