Delate vs Elate - What's the difference?
delate | elate |
To carry; to convey.
* Francis Bacon
To carry abroad; to spread; to make public.
* Jeremy Taylor
To carry or bring against, as a charge; to inform against; to accuse; to denounce.
* Bishop Burnet
To carry on; to conduct.
To make joyful or proud.
To lift up; raise; elevate.
elated; exultant
* Alexander Pope
* Mrs. H. H. Jackson
(obsolete) Lifted up; raised; elevated.
* Fenton
* Sir W. Jones
As verbs the difference between delate and elate
is that delate is to carry; to convey while elate is to make joyful or proud.As an adjective elate is
elated; exultant.delate
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(delat)- Try exactly the time wherein sound is delated .
- when the crime is delated or notorious
- As men were delated , they were marked down for such a fine.
- (Warner)
Etymology 2
elate
English
Verb
(elat)Adjective
(head)- O, thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, / Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate .
- Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress.
- with upper lip elate
- And sovereign law, that State's collected will, / O'er thrones and globes, elate , / Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
