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Elevation
ELEVA'TION, n. [L. elevatio.] The act of raising or conveying from a lower or deeper place to a higher.
1. The act of exalting in rank, degree or condition; as the elevation of a man to a throne.
2. Exaltation; an elevated state; dignity.
Angels, in their several degrees of elevation above us, may be endowed with more comprehensive faculties.
3. Exaltation of mind by more noble conceptions; as elevation of mind, of thoughts, of ideas.
4. Exaltation of style; lofty expressions; words and phrases expressive of lofty conceptions.
5. Exaltation of character or manners.
6. Attention to objects above us; a raising of the mind to superior objects.
7. An elevated place or station.
8. Elevated ground; a rising ground; a hill or mountain.
9. A passing of the voice from any note to one more acute; also, a swelling or augmentation of voice.
10. In astronomy, altitude; the distance of a heavenly body above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon.
11. In gunnery, the angle which the chace of a cannon or mortar, or the axis of the hollow cylinder, makes with the plane of the horizon.
12. In dialling, the angle which the style makes with the substylar line.
Elevation of the Host, in Catholic countries, that part of the mass in which the priest raises the host above his head for the people to adore.
elevation appears in definitions for these words:
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Acuteness Altitude Anagogically Anagogy Ascendant Ascension Ascent Bank Bazat Boldness Bulbous Bullate Calote Cavalier Celsitude Cicatrice Clef Coffer Conchoidal Degree Dial Dignity Dismount Dismounted Dismounting Distinction Down Downwards Eagle Earthy Ecstasy Elation Elevation Eminence Ennoblement Erection Evenly Evenness Exaltation Exclamation Facial Flatly Flight Get Glorification Graceful Gracefulness Grandeur Greatness Groveling Heap Heaven Highly Highness Hight Highth Hill Humbly Jolliness Knoll Ladder Lay Level Leveling Lift Loft Loftily Loftiness Lunet Magnanimity Magnanimously Majesty Meanly Meanness Mole-cast Mole-hill Mount Mountain Nobility Nobleness Note Orthography Pantometer Parapet Pitch Pitchpipe Plaice Platform Point Prettiness Pretty Pride Protuberance Raise Rampart Ranging Ridge Rise Ruff Spirit Stage Stair Steeving Stile Story Stupendous Sublimation Sublimity Subvert Summit Superexaltation Sweinmote Theatre Tower Transcendence Universal Up Upright Vibration
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