Definition of "elate" in English

verb

1. (transitive) To make joyful or proud.

2. (transitive) To lift up; raise; elevate.

adjective

1. Elated; exultant.

2. (obsolete) Lifted up; raised; elevated.

   • c. 1707, Elijah Fenton, a letter to the Knight of the Sable Shield with upper lip elate
   • a. 1794, William Jones, an ode in imitation of Alcaeus And sovereign law, that State's collected will, / O'er thrones and globes, elate, / Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.