lifted, ppl. a.
(ˈlɪftɪd)
[f. lift v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the vb.: Raised aloft, upreared, elevated, exalted; stolen, etc. Also with up.
| 1559 J. Aylmer Harborowe R 3 Let vs daylye call to God with lifted vp heartes and handes. c 1586 C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxxxix. v, Thy lifted hand a might of wonder showeth. 1654–66 Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 725 She endeavour'd to stop his lifted-up Arm from falling on me. 1667 Milton P.L. xi. 866 In the Cloud a Bow, Conspicuous with three lifted colours gay. 1703 Rowe Ulysses iv. i. 1803 Provoke the lifted Sword and pointed Spear. c 1730 Burt Lett. Gentl. N. Scotl. (1754) II. 93 His Grandfather..is therein assured of the immediate Restitution of his Lifted, that is, stolen Cows. 1819 Wordsw. Waggoner iv. 151 The morning light in grace Strikes upon his lifted face. 1859 Ruskin Two Paths iv. (1891) 184 All their changing grace of depressed or lifted pinnacle. 1859 Geo. Eliot (title) The Lifted Veil. 1883 J. E. Hopkins Autumn Swallows, Bormus, Down from the lifted cornfield trips The child. 1885–94 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche Apr. xxv, The last red ray Fled from her lifted arm. 1928 G. B. Shaw Let. 31 May in To a Young Actress (1960) 127 How will you face old age: With a ‘lifted’ face, with grease paints and an iceball and rouge, with peroxided hair, an old hag..pretending to be a young witch. |