1471. Ripley, Comp. Alch., Pref. in Ashm. (1652), 121. Fro thys envyos valey of vanyte, O our Exalter.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 309. O noble sisters … who were the onely exalters of all womankinde.
1678. R. Barclay, Apol. Quakers, viii. § 6. 250. Our Adversaries are Exalters of the Scriptures in words.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., XVIII. 621/2. It [Cinnabar] is an useful Exalter, and a most present and safe Alexiterick.
c. 1732. Swift, Answ. to ‘A Conclusion,’ in Anderson, Poets Gt. Brit. (1794), IX. 147. Her majesty never shall be my exalter; And yet she would raise me, I know, by a halter!
1731. A. Hill, Adv. Poets, Epist. 5. A Poet is … an Exalter of what is most dignified, and substantial, in Nature.
a. 1849. J. C. Mangan, Poems (1859), 176. The Grave, the Grave is the only Exalter!
