a. and sb. [f. ELEVATOR: see -ORY.]

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  A.  adj. Of or pertaining to elevation, that tends to elevate.

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  1.  Geol. Concerned in raising or tending to raise the crust of the earth.

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1833.  Lyell, Princ. Geol., III. 117. The disturbing and dislocating force of the elevatory movements.

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1847.  H. Miller, First Impr., xi. (1861), 140. Should the time ever arrive when the elevatory agencies, motionless and chill, shall sleep within their profound depths.

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1878.  Huxley, Physiogr., 205. Elevatory forces must have been at work.

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  2.  In a non-material sense.

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1851.  Ruskin, Mod. Paint., II. III. I. xiv. § 5. The moral feelings are thus elevatory of the mental faculties.

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  B.  sb. = ELEVATOR 2 [as if ad. L. *ēlevātōrium; so Fr. élévatoire, It. elevatorio].

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1612.  Woodall, Surg. Mate, Wks. (1655), 91. If a depression of the Cranium be, strive with the elevatorie to raise it.

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1758.  J. S., Le Dran’s Observ. Surg. (1771), D d iij. Vectis, an Elevatory used to raise depress’d Bones.

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1832.  in Webster; and in mod. Dicts.

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