elevationn.
/ɛlɪˈveɪʃən/ I. Process or result of elevating.† 3. Sublimation; vaporization by heat. Obsolete.† 6. Music. One of the ‘graces’ in old English music. Obsolete.† 7. The raising or rearing (of plants). Obsolete.
1. † b. spec. = erection n. Obsolete.† d. figurative. The lifting up of the soul (in adoration); a devout exaltation of feeling. Obsolete.
a. The action or process of lifting up or raising aloft; also, the giving of an upward direction to anything. valley of elevation (see quot. 1887).
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > [noun]
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heavinga1300
hancinga1382
arearing1382
hainingc1440
enhancing1490
elevation1526
raise1538
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raisure1613
exaltation1616
sublation1623
elevating1648
sublevation1663
upraising1839
uprearing1853
upsetting1882
updraw1912
the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun] > rift valley or valley of elevation
valley of elevation1526
rift valley1894
graben1896
fault-line valley1913
rift1921
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Eii The eleuacions or wawes of the see ben meruelous.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 61 A bul..can tosse into the aire very great..beasts which he receiueth againe as they fall downe, doubling their eleuation with renewed strength and rage.
1663 W. Charleton Chorea Gigantum 32 At first elevation of their eyes.
1682 N. Grew Exper. Luctation ii. i. §6 in Anat. Plants 239 Elevation; when, like Paste in baking..they [sc. the bodies mixed] swell and huff up.
1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 96 The disruption of the Strata..the Elevation of some, and Depression of others.
1863 A. C. Ramsay Physical Geol. & Geogr. Great Brit. (1878) i. 11 Volcanic regions subject to earthquakes are often areas of elevation.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 205 But the land is subject also to local elevations and depressions.
1887 H. B. Woodward Geol. Eng. & Wales (ed. 2) 586 We sometimes find the higher tracts to be formed by what was..a depression, while tracts originally elevated have been converted into..‘Valleys of Elevation’.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > erection
elevation1543
erection1594
tentigoa1603
Jack1604
stand1608
surgation1688
cockstandc1890
hard-on1898
hard1927
boner1936
hard up1937
bone-on1969
morning-glory1985
1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. i. f. 10v/1 The yarde..is ful of ventosite..by which ventositie the eleuation of the same commeth.
c. spec. The lifting up of the Host for the adoration of the people.
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society > faith > worship > parts of service > canon > [noun] > elevation of host
levationc1375
elevation1570
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2165/2 Before the eleuation..he turned him to the people..in great rage.
1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies iii. ii. 28 The elevation of the bread materialiter, is not Idolatrous.
1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) xxviii. 342 The Elevation of the Sacrament began to be practised in the Sixth Century.
1884 F. M. Crawford Rom. Singer (ed. 2) I. 9 And only takes it off when he sings the Gloria Patri, or at the Elevation.
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1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xlviii. 96 All which different eleuations of spirit vnto God are conteyned in the name of prayer.
1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §3 I could never heare the Ave Maria Bell without an elevation . View more context for this quotation
1674 J. Owen Disc. Holy Spirit (1693) 185 The Elevation of Faith to apprehend Divine Power.
1687 Bp. G. Burnet tr. Lactantius Relat. Death Primitive Persecutors 166 Let us then Celebrate Gods Triumph over his Enemies with all the Elevations of Joy.
1687 J. Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 259 We are..to love him with all possible..elevation of spirit.
e. Ballet. A dancer's leap or jump (steps of elevation) off the ground; the point attained in such a leap; in modern dance, an act or the action of tightening the muscles and improving the general lift of the body in a dancer's stance. (Also in French form élévation.)
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society > leisure > dancing > ballet > [noun] > movements
entrechat1706
pirouette1706
sissonne1706
batterie1712
cabriole1753
ballonné1760
balancé?1770
brisé1786
ballotté1802
rond de jambe1824
petit battement1828
battement1830
elevation1830
fouetté1830
jeté1830
changement de pied1840
développé1888
temps1890
pas de ciseaux1892
plié1892
changement1905
beat1913
ciseaux1913
glissé1913
ouvert1913
allegro1914
pas de chat1914
pas de cheval1916
soubresaut1916
grand jeté1919
lift1921
toe-dancing1924
pointwork1925
posé1927
jeté en tournant1930
tour1930
extension1934
tour jeté1935
fondu1939
retiré1941
chaîné1946
soutenu1947
passé1948
saut1948
contretemps1952
promenade1953
piqué1954
gargouillade1957
1830 R. Barton tr. C. Blasis Code of Terpsichore (ed. 2) ii. vi. 77 In all your high caperings, develope a manly vigour, and let your steps of elevation be agreeably contrasted, by the rapidity of your terre-à-terre steps.
1889 G. B. Shaw in Star 4 Oct. 2/4 The entrechats, battements, ronds de jambes, arabesques, élévations, and what's-his-names of the art of theatrical dancing.
1934 A. L. Haskell Balletomania xi. 223 She has gained an elevation that allows her to do thirty-six consecutive entrechats six!
1948 Ballet Ann. 2 36 A magnificent soaring elevation.
1948 Ballet Ann. 2 126 A slender dancer of exceptional elevation.
1949 G. Shurr & R. D. Yocom Mod. Dance i. 14 Elevation refers not only to ‘inches off the floor’—as in running, jumping, and leaping—but also to the body lift.
1961 Times 13 Apr. 16/7 She has a lightness and effortless purity, à terre and in elevation.
2. concrete. A rising or swelling (on the skin or surface of the ground); a rising ground, an eminence.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > swelling > [noun] > a swelling or protuberance
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kernelc1000
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bunchc1325
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nodusa1400
oedemaa1400
wax-kernel14..
knobc1405
nodule?a1425
more?c1425
bunnyc1440
papa1450
knurc1460
waxing kernel?c1460
lump?a1500
waxen-kernel1500
bump1533
puff1538
tumour?1541
swelling1542
elevation1543
enlarging1562
knub1563
pimple1582
ganglion1583
button1584
phyma1585
emphysema?1587
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oedem?a1591
burgeon1597
wartle1598
hurtle1599
pough1601
wart1603
extumescence1611
hulch1611
peppernel1613
affusion1615
extumescency1684
jog1715
knibloch1780
tumefaction1802
hunch1803
income1808
intumescence1822
gibber1853
tumescence1859
whetstone1886
tumidity1897
Osler's node1920
the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun]
link931
rise1240
motea1300
bentc1405
mote-hill1475
territory1477
height1487
rising1548
raising1572
linch1591
mount1591
swelling1630
up1637
vertex1641
advance1655
ascendant1655
eminency1662
ascent1663
eminence1670
swell1764
elevation1799
embreastment1799
upwith1819
lift1825
salita1910
turtle-back1913
upwarp1917
upslope1920
whaleback1928
1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. ii. f. 23/2 Pruna hath not so great eleuation as ignis persicus.
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 288/2 If..the Patient hath no externalle disease, nor anye eleuatione.
1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 285 Secondary strata present..elevations, from an original elevation in the fundamental stone.
1825 T. B. Macaulay Milton in Edinb. Rev. Aug. 324 Nooks and dells, beautiful as fairy land, are embosomed in its most rugged and gigantic elevations.
1848 S. C. Bartlett Egypt to Palestine (1879) x. 221 The remaining part of the elevation seemed like a small hill placed upon a terrace.
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the world > matter > gas > [noun] > fumes or vapour > action of being emitted or emitting
exhalation1398
smoking1530
fuminga1535
fumity1572
elevation1605
fumidity1623
avolation1650
fumosity1650
fumidness1727
steaming1819
outgassing1919
off-gassing1979
the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > sublimation
sublimationa1393
sublimingc1405
altificationa1550
elevation1605
meteorismus1848
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke ii. i. 103 The elevations and sublimations of the spirits of the said salt.
1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate Termes 342 Eleuation is subtiliation, when spirituall parts from the corporall..by the force of fire are eleuated.
1651 J. French Art Distillation i. 10 Elevation, is the rising of any matter in manner of fume, or vapour by vertue of heat.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iv. ii. 301 An elevation or rectification of some parts of that Matter.
4. transferred.
a. A raising or increase (of temperature).
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > becoming hot or warm > increase in temperature
elevation1882
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 825 The slight elevation of temperature in the forenoon.
b. A quickening (of the pulse); a raising of the animal spirits. Hence (dialect or nonstandard) that which raises the spirits, a ‘pick-me-up’.
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > circulation > pulsation > [noun] > types of pulsation
throb1597
fluttering1719
elevation1725
frequency1732
wallop1787
bradycardia1890
tricrotism1891
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [noun] > that which or one who refreshes or invigorates
spice?c1225
comfort1377
refresherc1450
refreshment1532
reviver1542
sauce1561
salt1579
refocillation1608
whettera1625
fillip1699
stimulant1728
stimulation1733
yeast1769
stimulus1791
inspiriter1821
stimulatory1821
refreshener1824
boost1825
bracer1826
young blood1830
freshener1838
invigoratorc1842
blow1849
tonic1849
elevation1850
stimulator1851
breather1876
pick-me-up1876
a shot in the arm1922
1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 88 Elevation or Depression of the Pulse.
1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. xii. 183 What's elevation..Opium, bor' alive, opium.
5. † b. concrete. The stressed syllable of a metrical foot; = arsis n. (rare).
a. The raising (of the voice) in loudness (? also in pitch).
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [noun] > power or range of voice > loudness of voice > raising of voice
elevation1605
uplifting1824
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Pp4v The consideration of the Accidents of Wordes, which are Measure, sound, and Eleuation, or Accent. View more context for this quotation
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 45 Prolongation of Vowels, or Elevation of voice in the pronouncing of any syllable, Accent.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > beat > rhythmical or metrical stress
accent1550
stroke1576
impression1643
percussion1674
pulse1677
ictus1752
arsis?1775
elevation1776
thesis1864
upbeat1883
1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 73 They [sc. feet] were always divided into two parts..the first of which was called ἀρσις, elevation.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > ornament > [noun] > grace > grace-note > specific
elevation1659
port de voix1729
appoggiatura1753
leaning-note1811
warbler1875
Nachschlag1879
1659 C. Simpson Division-violist 9 Sometimes a Note is graced by sliding it from the Third below, called an Elevation, now something obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > [noun]
governaila1400
husbanding?1440
nursing?1533
culture1580
cultivation1637
elevation1658
growth1663
rearing1693
growing1889
1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 38 The elevation and raising of Trees.
8. The action of raising in rank or dignity; the state or fact of being elevated in rank.
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society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > elevation or exaltation in rank
uprising1430
prelationa1450
sublimationc1450
ascendant1607
rise1608
superelevation1654
evection1658
elevation1701
1701 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) V. 4 The duke of Berwick was gone..to compliment the pope upon his elevation.
a1704 J. Locke Conduct of Understanding §3 in Posthumous Wks. (1706) 9 Angels and separate Spirits..in their several degrees of Elevation above us, may be endowed with more comprehensive Faculties.
1827 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (1873) 2nd Ser. 541 A sudden elevation in life..smells us out, and often perniciously.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. viii. 270 The many men of talent who owed their elevation to Wolsey.
II. The height to which anything is elevated.
9. Of angular magnitude:
a. Astronomy. The altitude or angular height of the pole, or of any heavenly body, above the horizon. †Of a place: The elevation of the pole at that place; the latitude (obsolete). Also in Dialling, the angle made by the gnomon with the horizon (which is equal to the latitude of the place).
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the world > the universe > heavenly body > position of heavenly body > [noun] > altitude
altitudec1386
elevationc1400
height1556
the world > the earth > geodetic references > [noun] > latitude
parallela1544
sublevation1556
height1585
latitude1622
degree1647
elevation1686
geographical latitude1712
geographic latitude1750
c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §23. 32 Tak ther the eleuacioun of thi pool.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 37 Cosmaghraphie..sal declair the..eleuatione..of the sone mune, and of the sternis.
1593 T. Fale Horologiographia f. 10 Before Sunne rising and after Sunne setting in our Elevation.
1650 J. Howell Instr. Forren Travell (new ed.) App. 138 The distance between places may be known by the elevation of the pole.
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 471 Under the Elivation of oure Pole.
1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 247 The Elevation of Erivan is in 40 Deg. 15 Min.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Elevation of the Pole (in Dialling) is the Angle which the Style..makes with the Substylar Line.
1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §69. 373 The Elevation of the Pole in that place therefore is also given.
1877 G. F. Chambers Handbk. Descr. Astron. (ed. 3) 915 Elevation of the Pole.
b. The angle made with the horizontal by any line of direction; spec. the angle at which a gun is elevated.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > [noun] > (angle of) elevation
random?a1560
mounture1628
elevation1692
set1844
1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) ii. iv. 93 If his Piece be mounted to any Elevation, he need not put a Wad after the shot.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Range The bomb, being fired at an elevation of 45°.
1798 Capt. Millar in Ld. Nelson Disp. & Lett. (1846) VII. Introd. 155 I observed their shot..and knowing that..they would not have coolness enough to change their elevation, I closed them suddenly.
10.
a. A particular height or altitude above a given level; as the height of a locality above the level of the sea; of a building, etc., above the level of the ground.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > [noun] > above a certain level
heightc1290
highheadc1300
higha1398
altitudea1449
sideness?a1475
alturea1547
pitch1590
mounture1613
eminency1625
eminence1658
haut1686
elevation1732
the world > space > relative position > high position > [noun] > height above the ground or sea level
heightc1290
altitudea1449
absolute height1729
elevation1856
upwardness1896
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. iii. ix. 181 The particular Distance, Position, Elevation, or Dimension of the Fabric.
1830 J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. (rev. ed.) 4 In sheltered groups they will reach an elevation of eighty or a hundred feet.
1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) ii. 129 Jerusalem is of nearly the same elevation as the highest ground in England.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §2. 19 What was snow at the higher elevations changed to rain lower down.
b. figurative.
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1822 T. Webster Imison's Elem. Sci. & Art (new ed.) II. 391 He will perceive to what an elevation the excellence of the art can raise him.
11. concrete. A drawing of a building or other object made in projection on a vertical plane, as distinguished from a ground plan.
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society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [noun] > a plan or diagram > elevation
upright1604
orthography1645
uprising1669
elevation1731
orthograph1875
1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Elevation (in Architect.) a draught or description of the face or principal side of a building, called also the Upright.
1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) IV. vi. 244 The plan and elevations of the late earl of Leicester's house.
1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic xi. 281 An elevation of the automaton, as seen from behind.
1847 S. Brooks (title) City, Town and Country Architecture, designs for Street Elevations, Shop Fronts, etc.
1874 R. St. J. Tyrwhitt Our Sketching Club 28 That's the front of your block which faces you,—the ‘elevation’ they call it.
12. As an abstract quality: Height, loftiness.
a. literal. Of a building, etc.
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1891 N.E.D. at Elevation Mod. A building of imposing elevation.
b. figurative. Of literary style: Grandeur, dignity; formerly also in plural, instances of elevation.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > loftiness or grandiloquence
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stateliness1550
sublimity1581
grandiloquence1589
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magniloquency1615
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elevationa1639
rotundity1655
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magniloquy1656
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loftiness1663
magnificentness1727
altiloquence1775
grandiosity1801
grandioso1816
grandiloquent1829
ororotundity1831
ororotundoism1840
orotundity1909
a1639 H. Wotton Parallel betweene Earle of Essex & Duke of Buckingham (1641) 8 His Stile..wanted a little Elevation.
1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 335 The Elevation of an Expression in an Ancient Author.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 1 (1753) I Some [epic poets].. imagined themselves entitled..to Elevations not allowed in common Life.
1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 126 A return to..the classic form, its dignity, elevation, and severity.
c. figurative. Of character and sentiments: Nobleness, loftiness of tone.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > [noun] > nobility of character or sentiments
earlshipOE
greatness1340
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height1662
elevationa1680
a1680 J. Glanvill Serm. iii. (R.) They..pitied the poor and carnal world..all that were not of their conceited pitch and elevation.
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 87. ⁋7 When nothing is necessary to elevation but detection of the follies of others.
1868 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals II. i. 72 Elevation of character constituted the Roman ideal of perfection.
1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times III. xlvi. 407 His character was somewhat wanting in the dignity of moral elevation.
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