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Elevated
(El"e*va`ted) a. Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated thoughts.
Elevated railway, one in which the track is raised considerably above the ground, especially a city
railway above the line of street travel.
Elevatedness
(El"e*va`ted*ness), n. The quality of being elevated.
Elevation
(El`e*va"tion) n. [L. elevatio: cf. F. élévation.]
1. The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; — said of material things, persons,
the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation of mind, thoughts, or
character.
2. Condition of being elevated; height; exaltation. "Degrees of elevation above us." Locke.
His style . . . wanted a little elevation. Sir H. Wotton. 3. That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station; as, an elevation of the ground; a hill.
4. (Astron.) The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted
between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of the pole, or of a star.
5. (Dialing) The angle which the style makes with the substylar line.
6. (Gunnery) The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that
is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line o sight; — distinguished from direction.
7. (Drawing) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the
horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; — called by the ancients the orthography.
Angle of elevation (Geodesy), the angle which an ascending line makes with a horizontal plane. —
Elevation of the host (R. C. Ch.), that part of the Mass in which the priest raises the host above his
head for the people to adore.
Elevator
(El"e*va`tor) n. [L., one who raises up, a deliverer: cf. F. élévateur.] One who, or that which,
raises or lifts up anything; as: (a) A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series
of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage. (b) A cage or platform and
the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from
different floors or levels; — called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself. (c) A building for elevating,
storing, and discharging, grain. (d) (Anat.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the
leg or the eye. (e) (Surg.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.
Elevator head, leg, &and boot, the boxes in which the upper pulley, belt, and lower pulley, respectively,
run in a grain elevator.
Elevatory
(El"e*va`to*ry) a. Tending to raise, or having power to elevate; as, elevatory forces.
Elevatory
(El"e*va`to*ry), n. [Cf. F. élévatoire.] (Surg.) See Elevator, n. (e). Dunglison.
Élève
(||É`lève")
n. [F., fr. élever to raise, bring up.] A pupil; a student.
Eleven
(E*lev"en) a. [OE. enleven, AS. endleofan, endlufon, for nleofan; akin to LG. eleve, ölwe, ölwen,
D. elf, G. elf, eilf, OHG. einlif, Icel. ellifu, Sw. elfva, Dan. elleve, Goth. ainlif, cf. Lith. vënolika; and
fr. the root of E. one + (prob.) a root signifying "to be left over, remain," appearing in E. loan, or perh.
in leave, v. t., life. See One, and cf. Twelve.] Ten and one added; as, eleven men.
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