"elevatory" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "elevate + -ory",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1912, J. H. Gardiner, The Making of Arguments",
          "text": "It is therefore clear that the elevatory forces which gave rise to the mountains operated subsequently to the Cretaceous epoch; and that the mountains themselves are largely made up of the materials deposited in the sea which once occupied their place.",
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          "ref": "1894, Thomas H. Huxley, Discourses",
          "text": "All this is certain, because rocks of cretaceous, or still later, date have shared in the elevatory movements which gave rise to these mountain chains; and may be found perched up, in some cases, many thousand feet high upon their flanks.",
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          "ref": "1862, Charles Darwin, More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II",
          "text": "Your view of the bottom of Atlantic long sinking with continued volcanic outbursts and local elevations at Madeira, Canaries, etc., grates (but of course I do not know how complex the phenomena are which are thus explained) against my judgment; my general ideas strongly lead me to believe in elevatory movements being widely extended.",
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        "Tending to raise, or having power to elevate."
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          "raise",
          "raise"
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          "elevate",
          "elevate"
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        "not-comparable"
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  "word": "elevatory"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "text": "All this is certain, because rocks of cretaceous, or still later, date have shared in the elevatory movements which gave rise to these mountain chains; and may be found perched up, in some cases, many thousand feet high upon their flanks.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1862, Charles Darwin, More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II",
          "text": "Your view of the bottom of Atlantic long sinking with continued volcanic outbursts and local elevations at Madeira, Canaries, etc., grates (but of course I do not know how complex the phenomena are which are thus explained) against my judgment; my general ideas strongly lead me to believe in elevatory movements being widely extended.",
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        "Tending to raise, or having power to elevate."
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  "word": "elevatory"
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