1664. ETHEREGE, The Comical Revenge, IV., iii. in wks. (1704), 51. The wine makes the rogue witty…. I will keep him thus ELEVATED ’till he has married Grace.
1748. SMOLLETT, Roderick Random, ch. xvii. The liquor mounted up to our heads, and made us all extremely frolicsome. I, in particular, was much ELEVATED.
1748. T. DYCHE, A New General English Dictionary (5 ed.). ELEVATED (A.)…. sometime spoke of a person that has drank a little too freely.
1836. DICKENS, Pickwick Papers, ch. l., p. 434. Except when he’s ELEVATED, Bob’s the quietest creature breathing.
1837. B. DISRAELI, Venetia, p. 274.
