Verb

(elevat)

To raise (something) to a higher position; to lift.

To promote (someone) to a higher rank.

To ennoble or honour/honor (someone).

To lift someone's spirits; to cheer up.

To increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound.

to elevate the voice

(dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.

* Sir Walter Scott

The elevated cavaliers sent for two tubs of merry stingo.

(obsolete, Latinism) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.

(Jeremy Taylor)

Verb

(enabling) (enabl)

To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.

* 1611 , King James Bible , "1 Tim. i. 12"

Who hath enabled me.

To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow.

* 1711 , October 13, (Joseph Addison), (The Spectator) , number 195

Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

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To allow a way out or excuse for an action.