See elevate on Wiktionary
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"text": "The doctor told me elevating my legs would help reduce the swelling.",
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"text": "The Grace or Blessynge of the table to be sayed of chyldren standynge before it, thyr handes eleuated and ioyned to gyder",
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"ref": "c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:",
"text": "She had one eye declined for the loss of her husband, another elevated that the oracle was fulfilled: […]",
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"text": "1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 25, 12 June, 1750, Volume 1, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, p. 216,\nWe know that a few strokes of the axe will lop a cedar; but what arts of cultivation can elevate a shrub?"
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"ref": "1896, Joseph Conrad, chapter V, in An Outcast of the Islands, London: T. Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, part II, page 138:",
"text": "Abdulla expressed his surprise by elevating his eyebrows.",
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"ref": "1682, Aphra Behn, “The Roundheads or, The Good Old Cause”, in et al., London: D. Brown, act I, scene 1, page 6:",
"text": "Hard Fate of Greatness, We so highly Elevated\nAre more expos’d to Censure than the little ones,",
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"ref": "1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, “The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered”, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC, page 24:",
"text": "Nothing can set the regal character in a more contemptible point of view, than the various crimes that have elevated men to the supreme dignity.",
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"ref": "1961, Joseph Heller, chapter 29, in Catch-22, New York: Dell, page 334:",
"text": "[…] that’s the way things go when you elevate mediocre people to positions of authority.",
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"ref": "2014, A. D. Wright, The Early Modern Papacy:",
"text": "Much has also been made recently of the distorting effects exerted on the administration of Urban VIII by the interests of the Barberini nephews, especially of the two elevated to cardinal status.",
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"ref": "2014, Guy W. Lecky-Thompson, Inside SharePoint 2007 Administration, page 55:",
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"text": "The traditional worldview elevates man as the pinnacle of creation.",
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"ref": "1591, Edmund Spenser, “Virgils Gnat” in Complaints, London: William Ponsonbie, That none, whom fortune freely doth aduaunce, Himselfe therefore to heauen should eleuate",
"text": "For loftie type of honour through the glaunce\nOf enuies dart, is downe in dust prostrate;"
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"text": "A talented chef can elevate everyday ingredients into gourmet delights.",
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"ref": "1682, John Dryden, “Epistle to the Whigs”, in The Medal, Edinburgh:",
"text": "[…] if you encourage a young Beginner, who knows but he may elevate his stile a little,",
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"ref": "1768, William Gilpin, chapter 1, in An Essay upon Prints, London: J. Robson, page 33:",
"text": "He is the true artist, who copies nature; but, where he finds her mean, elevates her from his own ideas of beauty.",
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"ref": "1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:",
"text": "You can’t think how it elevates him in my opinion, to know for certain that he’s really conscientious!",
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"ref": "1665, Robert Boyle, Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects, London: Henry Herringman, Section 4, Chapter 4, pp. 73-74:",
"text": "[…] the devout Christian improves the Blessings he receives of this inferiour World, to elevate his mind above it:",
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"ref": "1999, Ahdaf Soueif, chapter 18, in The Map of Love, New York: Anchor Books, published 2000:",
"text": "On the whole I would regard serious art as a means to elevate the emotions and educate the spirit […]",
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"ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 10, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book 14, page 191:",
"text": "[…] the Uncle had more than once elevated his Voice, so as to be heard down Stairs;",
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"ref": "1904, Jack London, chapter 3, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 20:",
"text": "“We’ll see to that,” Wolf Larsen answered, and elevated his voice in a call of “Cooky!”",
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"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 633-634:",
"text": "[…] Hope elevates, and joy\nBright’ns his Crest,",
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"text": "1759, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and J. Bell, Part 1, Section 2, Chapter 1, p. 20,\nIt gives us the spleen […] to see another too happy or too much elevated, as we call it, with any little piece of good fortune."
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"ref": "1755 October 23, George Colman, Bonnell Thornton, The Connoisseur, volume 2, number 91, London: R. Baldwin, published 1756, page 557:",
"text": "Steele entertained them till he was tipsy; when the same wine that stupified him, only served to elevate Addison, who took up the ball just as Steele dropt it, and kept it up for the rest of the evening.",
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"ref": "1791, James Boswell, “(please specify the year)”, in James Boswell, editor, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "[Johnson,] from drinking only water, supposed every body who drank wine to be elevated",
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"ref": "1822, [Walter Scott], chapter III, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 92:",
"text": "[…] the elevated Cavaliers […] sent to Roger Raine of the Peveril Arms […] for two tubs of merry stingo",
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"with-voseo"
]
}
],
"word": "elevate"
}
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