Adjective

(-)

Tending to raise, or having power to elevate.

* {{quote-book, year=1912, author=J. H. Gardiner, title=The Making of Arguments, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=It is therefore clear that the elevatory forces which gave rise to the mountains operated subsequently to the Cretaceous epoch; and that the mountains themselves are largely made up of the materials deposited in the sea which once occupied their place. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1894, author=Thomas H. Huxley, title=Discourses, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=All this is certain, because rocks of cretaceous, or still later, date have shared in the elevatory movements which gave rise to these mountain chains; and may be found perched up, in some cases, many thousand feet high upon their flanks. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1862, author=Charles Darwin, title=More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Your view of the bottom of Atlantic long sinking with continued volcanic outbursts and local elevations at Madeira, Canaries, etc., grates (but of course I do not know how complex the phenomena are which are thus explained) against my judgment; my general ideas strongly lead me to believe in elevatory movements being widely extended. }} (Webster 1913)