elate
adjEtymology From Middle English elat, elate, from Latin ēlātus (“exalted, lofty”), perfect passive participle of efferō (“bring forth or out; raise; exalt”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
1
Elated; exultant.
- Oh thoughtless Mortals! ever blind to Fate, Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate.1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, canto III:
- Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress.1895, Helen Hunt Jackson, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 28:
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.