ELEVATION Copy link • ELEVATIONAct of lifting up, allevatio (Quint.): elatio (e.g., onerum, Vitr.; figuratively animi, vocis): levatio (onerum, Vitr.): elevation of the voice, contentio vocis (Cic.); sublatio soni (Quint.): elevation of the mind, elatio, sublatio animi (the raising it to higher thoughts): ascensio (its progress toward perfection, Cic., Brut., 36, 137). Height, (a) locus editus: collis: tumulus (mound of earth). (b) FIG., altitudo: excelsitas (PROP. and figuratively): eminentia (part that stands out; but also figuratively = excellence): elatio (IMPROP., swelling of the mind, of language, etc.). Elevation of mind, animi altitudo: animi excelsitas, elatio, eminentia: elevation of language or style, orationis elatio atque altitudo; orationis or verborum granditas; verborum majestas or splendor: sublime elevation of language, sublimitas in verbis. Act of praising, praedicatio. In architecture, orthographia (Vitr., 1, 2, who defines it thus, erecta frontis imago modiceque picta rationibus operis futura figura).