Also 4–5 eleuat(e, (5 eliuate), 6 elevat. [ad. L. ēlevāt-us, pa. pple. of ēlevā-re to elevate.] Used as pa. pple. of ELEVATE; also = ELEVATED ppl. a.; in various senses. From 18th c. only poet.
c. 1391. Chaucer, Astrol., II. § 23. This is to seyn, as many degrees as thy pool is eleuat, so michel is the latitude of the Regioun.
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls), I. 227. If that ston be oon say … by what arte hit was elevate.
1509. Hawes, Examp. Virt., vii. 134. He in richesse shall be so eleuate.
1513. Bradshaw, St. Werburge (1848), 125. The graue was, opened, eleuat was the chest.
1598. Stow, Surv., xxix. (1603), 259. A Tombe, eleuate and arched.
1667. Milton, P. L., II. 559. In thoughts more elevate.
1673. [R. Leigh], Transp. Reh., 22. This is elevate, this is the new way of writing.
1676. Halley, in Rigaud, Corr. Sci. Men (1841), I. 228. St. Helena … where the south pole is considerably elevate.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., II. 350. Souls elevate, angelic, wing’d with fire.
1814. Southey, Roderick, VI. Elevate Amid the thousands … above their heads upraised.
1873. Browning, Red Cott. Nt.-cap, 1638. There had been shaggy eyebrows elevate.
