Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for EX-ALT'
EX-ALT', v.t. [egzolt'; Fr. exalter; Sp. exaltar; It. esaltare; Low L. exalto; ex and altus, high.]
- To raise high; to elevate.
- To elevate in power, wealth, rank or dignity; as, to exalt one to a throne, to the chief magistracy, to a bishopric.
- To elevate with joy or confidence; as, to be exalted with success or victory. [We now use elate.]
- To raise with pride; to make undue pretensions to power, rank or estimation; to elevate too high or above others. He that exalteth himself shall be abased. Luke xiv. Matth. xxiii.
- To elevate in estimation and praise; to magnify; to praise; to extol. He is my father's God, and I will exalt him. Ex. xv.
- To raise, as the voice; to raise in opposition. 2 Kings xix.
- To elevate in diction or sentiment; to make sublime; as, exalted strains.
- In physics, to elevate; to purify; to subtilize; to refine; as, to exalt the juices or the qualities of bodies.
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