Exalted

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Exalted \Ex*alt"ed\, a.
     Raised to lofty height; elevated; extolled; refined;
     dignified; sublime.
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           Wiser far than Solomon,


           Of more exalted mind.                    --Milton.
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           Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a
           strict scrutiny.                         --Ames.
     -- {Ex*alt"ed*ly}, adv. -- {Ex*alt"ed*ness}, n. "The
     exaltedness of some minds." --T. Gray.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Exalt \Ex*alt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exalted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Exalting}.] [L. exaltare; ex out (intens.) + altare to make
     high, altus high: cf.F. exalter. See {Altitude}.]
     1. To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.
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              I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. --Is.
                                                    xiv. 13.
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              Exalt thy towery head, and lift thine eyes --Pope.
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     2. To elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or
        the like; to dignify; to promote; as, to exalt a prince to
        the throne, a citizen to the presidency.
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              Righteousness exalteth a nation.      --Prov. xiv.
                                                    34.
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              He that humbleth himself shall be exalted. --Luke
                                                    xiv. 11.
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     3. To elevate by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol;
        to glorify. "Exalt ye the Lord." --Ps. xcix. 5.
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              In his own grace he doth exalt himself. --Shak.
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     4. To lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with
        delight or satisfaction; to elate.
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              They who thought they got whatsoever he lost were
              mightily exalted.                     --Dryden.
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     5. To elevate the tone of, as of the voice or a musical
        instrument. --Is. xxxvii. 23.
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              Now Mars, she said, let Fame exalt her voice.
                                                    --Prior.
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     6. (Alchem.) To render pure or refined; to intensify or
        concentrate; as, to exalt the juices of bodies.
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              With chemic art exalts the mineral powers. --Pope.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  exalted
       adj 1: of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or
              style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of
              high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty
              concept" [syn: {high-flown}, {high-minded}, {lofty}, {rarefied},
               {rarified}, {idealistic}, {noble-minded}]
       2: high or exalted in style or character; "high drama"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  232 Moby Thesaurus words for "exalted":
     Olympian, aerial, aggrandized, airy, altitudinous, analysis,
     apotheosized, aristocratic, ascending, aspiring, assay, astral,
     audit, august, awesome, beaming, beatified, big, bighearted,
     blissful, blithe, blithesome, breakdown, bright, bright and sunny,
     bursting with happiness, canonized, canvass, carried away,
     catechization, celebrated, checkup, cheerful, cheery, chivalrous,
     colossal, deified, diagnosis, dignified, dissection, distinguished,
     dominating, ducal, ecstatic, elate, elated, elevated, eminent,
     enchanted, ennobled, enraptured, enravished, enshrined, enthroned,
     entranced, erect, ethereal, eupeptic, euphoric, exaggerated,
     examination, excellent, excited, exhilarated, exultant, famed,
     famous, first, flushed, foremost, freaked out, generous, genial,
     genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, glad, gladsome,
     glorified, glorious, glowing, godlike, grand, great,
     great of heart, greathearted, handsome, happy, haughty, heightened,
     held in awe, heroic, high, high and mighty, high-flown,
     high-minded, high-pitched, high-ranking, high-reaching, high-set,
     high-up, highest, highest-ranking, honored, hopeful, idealistic,
     illustrious, immortal, immortalized, imparadised, in ecstasies,
     in good spirits, in heaven, in high spirits, in paradise,
     in raptures, in seventh heaven, inflated, inquiry, inspection,
     irrepressible, joyful, joyous, jubilant, kinglike, kingly,
     knightly, ladylike, largehearted, lauded, laughing, leading,
     liberal, lifted, lofty, magnanimous, magnificent, magnified,
     majestic, mighty, monumental, mounting, noble, noble-minded,
     notable, noted, number one, of gentle blood, of good cheer,
     of rank, on cloud nine, on stilts, openhanded, optimistic,
     outstanding, outtopping, overblown, overjoyed, overjoyful,
     overlooking, overtopping, patrician, perlustration, pleasant,
     possessed, prestigious, pretentious, princelike, princely,
     prominent, queenlike, queenly, questioning, quite the lady,
     quizzing, radiant, raised, rampant, rapt, raptured, rapturous,
     ravished, renowned, review, rhapsodic, riant, rosy, sainted,
     sanctified, sanguine, sanguineous, scan, scrutiny, sent, shrined,
     sifting, smiling, soaring, sparkling, spiring, steep, stilted,
     sublime, sunny, superb, supereminent, superior, superlative,
     supernal, survey, testing, throned, titled, top-drawer, topless,
     toplofty, topping, towering, towery, transported, upcast, upflung,
     uplifted, uplifting, upraised, upreared, upright, upthrown, view,
     winnowing, winsome