ELEVATE Copy link • ELEVATERaise, lift up, tollere: attollere: extollere: levare: allevare (Quint.); efferre (also figuratively of lifting up with pride). FIG., To elevate one’s thoughts to God, *animum convertere or evehere ad cogitationem Dei; one’s heart above the world, *animum ad coelestia tollere (Muret.): they cannot elevate their minds to anything noble or God-like, nihil altum, nihil magnificum ac divinum suspicere possunt. To be elevated (= elated), se efferre aliqua re; efferri aliqua re; by prosperity, secunda fortuna efferri; secundis rebus intumescere or insolescere. Elevated to honors, honore amplificatus. Detract from, remove, elevare (e.g., alicujus auctoritatem, facta, famam alicujus rei, etc.).