elevate

1. (transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position.Examples: "The doctor told me elevating my legs would help reduce the swelling."; "The Grace or Blessynge of the table to be sayed of chyldren standynge before it, thyr handes eleuated and ioyned to gyder"; "She had one eye declined for the loss of her husband, another elevated that the oracle was fulfilled: […]"Synonyms: lift, raiseAntonyms: drop, lowertransitive

2. (transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank.Examples: "Hard Fate of Greatness, We so highly Elevated Are more expos’d to Censure than the little ones,"; "Nothing can set the regal character in a more contemptible point of view, than the various crimes that have elevated men to the supreme dignity."; "[…] that’s the way things go when you elevate mediocre people to positions of authority."Synonyms: exalt, promoteAntonyms: demotetransitive

3. (transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank.Examples: "Did you forget that all programs that modify the registry need to be elevated?"Synonyms: exalt, promoteAntonyms: demotetransitive

4. (transitive) To confer honor or nobility on (someone).Examples: "The traditional worldview elevates man as the pinnacle of creation."; "For loftie type of honour through the glaunce Of enuies dart, is downe in dust prostrate;"Synonyms: ennoble, exalt, honortransitive

5. (transitive) To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value.Examples: "A talented chef can elevate everyday ingredients into gourmet delights."; "[…] if you encourage a young Beginner, who knows but he may elevate his stile a little,"; "He is the true artist, who copies nature; but, where he finds her mean, elevates her from his own ideas of beauty."transitive

6. (transitive) To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things.Examples: "[…] the devout Christian improves the Blessings he receives of this inferiour World, to elevate his mind above it:"; "On the whole I would regard serious art as a means to elevate the emotions and educate the spirit […]"transitive