transferred and figurative. To raise. To raise, exalt, lift up, elevate (in feeling, dignity, station, etc.); to extol. Obsolete.

transitive. To exalt, extol; to elevate to heaven; to make holier. Also in figurative contexts. Now archaic and rare.

transitive. To make (something, esp. an abstract thing) better or more positive; esp. (in early use) to make more glorious, excellent, or pure, (in…

figurative. To make illustrious or glorious; to exalt, glorify.

transitive. To render glorious; to invest with glory, procure glory for. In early quots. esp. to exalt to the glory of heaven.

In various figurative or immaterial senses, with personal object. To exalt in dignity, rank, estimation, or wealth.

transitive. To transform (a person or thing) into a star or a constellation; to place among the stars.

transitive. figurative. To advance, strengthen; to raise up, exalt. Obsolete.

In various figurative or non-material senses. To raise in rank, honour, estimation, power, or wealth. †Formerly occasionally with title as compl…

figurative. transitive. To exalt (a person's name); to enhance (the status, rank, etc.) of a person or thing.

To canonize (figurative). Obsolete.

transitive. To exalt, raise up (a person or thing). Formerly also reflexive: †to exalt oneself; to promote oneself on the strength of a specified…

transitive. To make high, exalt.

To exalt in consideration or dignity; to raise to eminence or importance; elevate to office; in earlier use, to raise to (a kingdom); to set up for…

To adopt, choose, elect, to some position. (So in Latin.) Often with the idea of elevation; cf. assumption, n. 2. Obsolete.

transitive. To elevate (a person or thing) in quality, estimation, or rank; to exalt. Obsolete.

transitive. To make worthy or illustrious; to confer dignity or honour upon; to ennoble, honour.

†To speak highly of, extol, praise (obsolete); to put forward as a model, ‘put on a pedestal’.

To lift up in dignity or authority; to uphold the authority of. Obsolete.

transitive. To glorify or exalt (a person or thing); to raise in dignity; to elevate in status. Now rare.

transitive. To raise (a person) in status or rank; to exalt. Obsolete.

transitive. To elevate (a person) to a high or higher position, status, or dignity; to raise in esteem or social distinction. Also figurative. Cf. su…

transitive. To raise (a person) to a high rank or office; to elevate in status or esteem; to exalt. Obsolete.

To elect or elevate to office; = assume, v. 2.

transitive. To make a god of, to deify.

transitive. To make royal; to invest with a royal character or standing. In later use also: to bring under royal control. Also in extended use.

To raise (a person) out of inactivity; to exalt the condition of.

To magnify; to exalt. Now rare or Obsolete.

To place among the gods; to deify; to apotheosize. Obsolete.

transitive. To make royal or regal.

transitive. To lift up, raise, elevate, exalt, or promote, in various figurative contexts. Now rare.

figurative. To set aloft or aloof; to place above the common reach.

transitive. To make great, to magnify.

transitive. To exalt or raise to a higher, or to the highest, position or rank; to exalt supremely. Now rare.

To exalt. rare.

causal. To raise in estimation, exalt. Obsolete.

transitive. To increase (esp. a price). Obsolete.

In various figurative uses. To make splendid, dignify. Obsolete.

transitive. = apotheosize, v.

transitive. To make (esp. exaggeratedly or unduly) great or grand; to aggrandize.

transitive. To make great; to increase, aggrandize; also figurative to aggravate (an offence).

transitive. To make great, increase in estimation, importance, power, rank, or wealth.

transitive. figurative. To exalt, magnify. Obsolete.

transitive. To enthrone.

transitive. To make or proclaim great.

transitive. To rank highest, to exalt. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To make great or greater; to aggrandize; to make (more) grand.

transitive. To make into or treat as a hero; (also) to venerate or deify as a hero (hero, n. 1).

transitive. To elevate to, or as if to, divine status; to deify, idolize; to glorify, exalt.

transitive. To set (a person or thing) in a chair or place likened to a throne; to place (a person or thing) in a high location or position…

transitive. To cause (a person) appear greater than the reality; to exalt. Also reflexive.

transitive. To admit into, or inter in, a pantheon; spec. to inter in the Panthéon in Paris.

figurative.

transitive. To make into a prince; to make princely.

transitive. To make or crown (a woman) a queen; to invest with the status of a queen. Also figurative.

transitive. spec. To venerate or deify as a hero (hero, n. 1).