ppl. a. [f. ELEVATE v.]
1. Raised up; (of buildings, etc.) reared aloft; (of the hands) uplifted; (Geog.) situated at a high level. Elevated pole (see quot.). Elevated railway: a railway supported on pillars above the street-level.
1553. Eden, Treat. New Ind. (Arb.), 32. The south pole is there eleuated fortie & syxe degrees.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 434. The intelligible faculty of the Soule, as the Queene and Princesse of the rest should sit in an eleuated Tribunall.
1651. Hobbes, Leviath., III. xlii. 290. To elect … by plurality of elevated hands.
1674. Ch. & Court of Rome, 7. The idolatrous Worship of the elevated Wafer.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1776), I. 200. Rivers have their source either in mountains, or elevated lakes.
1856. Stanley, Sinai & Pal., i. (1858), 11. Um Shaumer, the most elevated summit of the whole range.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Elevated Pole. That terrestrial pole which is above the horizon of a spectator.
† b. Of vapors: Raised by heat. Obs.
1715. trans. Pancirollus’ Rerum Mem., II. viii. 322. Distillation … whereby elevated Fumes … are resolv’d into Waters, Oils.
c. fig. Exalted in rank.
1665–9. Boyle, Occas. Refl., IV. xii. 267. So Elevated a Station is apt to make Men giddy.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 545. Risen once more to the most elevated position among English subjects.
2. transf. Of the voice, of temperature.
1816. Scott, Antiq., i. With an elevated voice.
1878. Huxley, Physiogr., 76. If the liquid metal be kept … at an elevated temperature.
3. Math. Of an equation: Involving high powers of the unknown quantity.
1841. J. R. Young, Math. Dissert., III. 138. Whenever … the proposed equation is of an elevated order.
1854. G. Boole, Invest. Laws Th., i. 17. When that equation is of an elevated degree.
4. a. Astrol. b. Her. (see quots.).
1721–1800. Bailey, Elevated, a Planet is said to be elevated above another, when being stronger it weakens the Influence of the other. Ibid. (1731), vol. II. Elevated in Heraldry … signifies the points of them [wings] turned upwards, which is the true flying posture.
5. Exalted in character, style and tone; lofty, sublime; dignified.
1604. T. Wright, Passions, IV. i. 117. Among ciuile gentlemen and eleuated spirits, it will often chance that there will arise in conuersation, a certaine diuersitie of opinion.
1713. Berkeley, Ess., Wks. III. 183. The most elevated notions of theology and morality.
1834. Mrs. Somerville, Connex. Phys. Sc. (1849), Introd. 1. Science … must ever afford … subject of elevated meditation.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), V. 120. One of the most elevated passages in Plato.
6. a. Elated, exhilarated. b. Slightly intoxicated (humorous or slang).
1624. Massinger, Parl. of Love, II. i. A little elevated With the assurance of my future fortune.
1800. Bloomfield, Farmer’s Boy, Winter, 384. Sunshine, Health, and Joy … cheer the elevated Boy!
1859. Jephson, Brittany, v. 64. Some of the men were a little elevated; but of actual drunkenness and brutal indecency, such as disgrace our fairs, there was absolutely none.
1863. Mrs. Oliphant, Salem Chapel, xi. 189. This elevated frame of mind.
Hence Elevatedly adv., in an elevated manner; with exaltation. Elevatedness, the quality or condition of being elevated.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T. (1613), 27. So penetrating and eleuatedly haue I praid for you.
1731. Bailey, vol. II., Elevatedness, exaltedness, a being lifted up, &c.
1799. Godwin, St. Leon (1801), II. xv. 172 (L.). I had neither wife nor children, in whom mutually to reflect and see reflected the elevatedness and generosity of my station.
