elevated, ppl. a. (and n.)
(ˈɛlɪveɪtɪd)
[f. elevate v.]
1. a. Raised up; (of buildings, etc.) reared aloft; (of the hands) uplifted; (Geog.) situated at a high level. elevated pole (see quot.). elevated railway: a railway supported on pillars above the street-level; also (U.S.) elevated highway, elevated railroad, elevated road; so elevated station, elevated train; ellipt. as n. = elevated railway, etc.
| 1553 Eden Treat. New Ind. (Arb.) 32 The south pole is there eleuated fortie & syxe degrees. 1615 Crooke Body of Man 434 The intelligible faculty of the Soule, as the Queene and Princesse of the rest should sit in an eleuated Tribunall. 1651 Hobbes Leviath. iii. xlii. 290 To elect..by plurality of elevated hands. 1674 Ch. & Court of Rome 7 The idolatrous Worship of the elevated Wafer. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) I. 200 Rivers have their source either in mountains, or elevated lakes. 1856 Stanley Sinai & Pal. i. (1858) 11 Um Shaumer, the most elevated summit of the whole range. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Elevated Pole, that..pole which is above the horizon. 1868 N.Y. Tribune 1 July 8/2 The remarkable work of constructing an elevated railway..was again on trial yesterday. 1868 Ibid. 8/6 The elevated railroad through Greenwich street has ‘gone up’ higher than was contemplated in the charter of the company. 1868 Comm. & Financ. Chron. VI. 361/1 Three tiers of roads could be constructed; a basement road..a surface road..and an elevated road. 1880 Harper's Mag. Sept. 563 The buzzing which vibrates in the air comes from an elevated railway. 1881 Scribner's Mag. May 159/2 The clatter and roar and groaning wail of the Elevated train. 1881 W. G. Marshall Through Amer. 24 The effect of the ‘elevated’—the ‘L’, as New Yorkers generally call it—is, to my mind, anything but beautiful. 1884 N.Y. Herald 27 Oct. 2/2 Commodious First Flat; Rent $37; Elevated Station 86th st. 1890 Century Mag. Nov. 45 In those days there were no elevated roads. 1901 Scribner's Mag. XXIX. 454/1 In the street the Ninth Avenue Elevated train roared by... The cobble-stones on Sixth Avenue were shining under the Elevated. 1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million 8 Standing under a gas-light and looking over the elevated road at the moon. 1945 W. Maxwell Folded Leaf 257 They rode on the elevated railway. 1947 Harper's Mag. May 453/2 The remaining eighty per cent [of the population] cling to the greasy straps of the antiquated, unsanitary, dilapidated, and dangerous Elevated. 1963 P.M.L.A. Dec. p. vii/2 (list) U.K. flyover: U.S. elevated highway. |
† b. Of vapours: Raised by heat. Obs.
| 1715 tr. Pancirollus' Rerum Mem. II. viii. 322 Distillation..whereby elevated Fumes..are resolv'd into Waters, Oils. |
c. fig. Exalted in rank.
| 1665–9 Boyle Occas. Refl., So elevated a station is apt to make men giddy. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 545 The most elevated position among English subjects. |
2. transf. Of the voice, of temperature.
| 1816 Scott Antiq. i, With an elevated voice. 1878 Huxley Physiogr. 76 If the liquid metal be kept..at an elevated temperature. |
3. Math. Of an equation: Involving high powers of the unknown quantity.
| 1841 J. R. Young Math. Dissert. iii. 138 Whenever..the proposed equation is of an elevated order. 1854 G. Boole Laws Thought i. 17 When that equation is of an elevated degree. |
4. a. Astrol. b. Her. (see quots.).
| 1721–1800 Bailey, Elevated, a Planet is said to be elevated above another, when being stronger it weakens the Influence of the other. 1731 Ibid. vol. II, Elevated in Heraldry..signifies the points of them [wings] turned upwards, which is the true flying posture. |
5. Exalted in character, style, and tone; lofty, sublime; dignified.
| 1604 T. Wright Pass. iv. i. 117 Among..eleuated spirits it will often chance that there will arise in conuersation, a certaine diuersitie of opinion. 1713 Berkeley Ess. Wks. III. 183 The most elevated notions of theology and morality. 1834 M. Somerville Connex. Phys. Sc. (1849) Introd. 1 Science..must ever afford..subject of elevated meditation. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 120 One of the most elevated passages in Plato. |
6. a. Elated, exhilarated. b. Slightly intoxicated (humorous or slang).
| 1624 Massinger Parl. of Love ii. i, A little elevated With the assurance of my future fortune. 1800 Bloomfield Farmer's Boy, Winter 384 Sunshine, Health, and Joy{ddd}cheer the elevated Boy! 1827 J. Wight More Mornings at Bow St. 51 A leetle elevated in liquor. 1859 Jephson Brittany v. 64 Some of the men were a little elevated. 1863 Mrs. Oliphant Salem Ch. xi. 189 This elevated frame of mind. 1898 C. M. Yonge Founded on Paper xviii. 211 Though the landlord declared him to have been fairly sober, he was what one awe-stricken youth termed ‘a little elevated’. |
Hence ˈelevatedly adv., in an elevated manner; with exaltation. ˈelevatedness, the quality or condition of being elevated.
| 1593 Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 27 So penetrating and eleuatedly haue I praid for you. 1731 Bailey, vol. II, Elevatedness, exaltedness, a being lift up, etc. 1799 W. Godwin St. Leon (L.), The elevatedness and generosity of my station. |