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heighten, v.|ˈhaɪt(ə)n|
Forms: α. 6 heythen, 7 highthen, heighthen, 7–8 heigthen. β. 6–8 highten, 6– heighten.
[f. height n. + -en5; or perh. extended form of height v.: see -en5.]
1. trans. To give or add height to; to make high or higher; to elevate.
1530Palsgr. 582/2 This balke is heythened two foote. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 42 They may heyghten it, or let it downe as they list. 1617Moryson Itin. ii. 169 The ditches..should bee deepned, and the trenches highthned. 1763J. Brown Poetry & Mus. vi. 119 The Buskin and Masque..the first hightened the Stature, as the second inlarged the Visage. 1871Freeman Norm. Conq. IV. xviii. 125 That church..had been simply repaired and heightened.
2. To render high or higher in amount or degree; to increase, raise, augment, intensify.
1523Fitzherb. Surv. Prol., That..the owners therof do nat heyghten their rentes of their tenauntes. 1639Fuller Holy War iv. vii. (1647) 180 Men heightened their looking for great matters from him. 1643Denham Cooper's H. 48 In whose face Sate Meekness, heightned with Majestick Grace. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 1 ⁋14 It heightens his alacrity to think in how many places he shall hear what he is now writing. 1776Adam Smith W.N. i. ix. (1869) I. 103 It would be necessary to heighten the price. 1853A. Soyer Pantroph. 93 The leaves of wormwood are used in salad to..heighten the flavour. 1876Tait Rec. Adv. Phys. Sc. vi. (ed. 2) 135 The boiling point of water is heightened by pressure.
b. To augment in description.
1731Swift Answ. Simile Wks. 1755 IV. 223 Your poets, Chloe's beauty hightning, Compare her radiant eyes to lightning. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. I. vi. 526 A story, somewhat heightened in details.
3. spec. To render (a colour) more luminous: the opposite of to deepen. Also sometimes, to render more intense; to deepen.
1622Peacham Compl. Gent. cxiii. (1634) 127 To heighten or deepen [the shadows] as your body appeareth neerer or farther. 1665R. Hooke Microgr. 69 The Red is diluted..and the Blue heightned. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters I. 129 A pink color..is heightened to a crimson. 1799G. Smith Laboratory I. 382 Shade them with deep ochre, and heighten them with masticot and white. 1854Fairholt Dict. Terms Art s.v., To heighten a tint is to make it lighter and more prominent, by means of touches of light opaque colour, placed upon it.
†4. To exalt in feeling or condition; to elate, excite. Obs.
1604Twelve Patriarchs 83 The single-hearted man..desireth not shift of apparel, nor heightneth himself long time. 1607Shakes. Cor. v. vi. 22, I rais'd him..who being so heighten'd, He watered his new Plants with dewes of Flattery. a1656Ussher Ann. (1658) 757 Being heighthened with this victory he entred the pallace. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 793 Satiate at length, And hight'nd as with Wine. 1676Marvell Mr. Smirke 71 The people of God did glory and heighten it self in the doing of good things. 1692O. Walker Hist. Illustr. 236 They..made Caracalla Augustus..which so heightned him, that he continually sought to kill his Father.
5. intr. To become high or higher; to increase in height; to rise. Now rare.
1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 32 The Balme tree..heightneth neuer aboue two cubites. 1659D. Pell Impr. Sea 507 The flood hath heightned and carried you off clear. 1832J. H. Newman Lett. (1891) I. 298 As we rode up the carriage⁓way, the Rock seemed to heighten marvellously.
b. To rise in amount or degree.
1803[see heightening ppl. a.]. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 238 Obadiah's description heightens as it goes on. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. III. xi. 9 The public anxiety heightened at every stage of the disorder. |