elevatory
adjEtymology From elevate + -ory.
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Tending to raise, or having power to elevate.
- 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.1912, J. H. Gardiner, The Making of Arguments:
- 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.1894, Thomas H. Huxley, Discourses:
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- 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.1862, Charles Darwin, More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II: